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by merlindru 13 days ago
yes but the compensation part is the problem

An 80h week should not be compensated the same as two 40h weeks

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Actually, one hour of overtime should cost twice as much, if not more. When I worked on movie sets, hour 1-8 was ordinary pay. Hour 8-12 was 1/5 of the daily pay an hour, hour 12-15 1/3 of daily pay an hour and so on. This forced production companies to front load effort on planning.
In the case of crunch in the video game industry, an 80 hour week is compensated the same as one 40 hour week