EPIC Games has a large number of QA staff members. A hand to protect personnel who are said to be liked

Epic Games seems to have embarked to regular employees of contract employees. QA (Quality Assurance) The number of staff members, including testers, have been offered to change employment forms. Overseas media THE VERGE convey.

Epic Games is a US largest game company known for the development of Unreal Engine and "Fort Night". Recently, we are also developing our own game store and publishing business, and the width of the business is a share. According to the Verge report, the magazine has obtained a sentence for Epic Games employees for regular employment. The sentences were the contents of presenting full-time regular employment treatment for specific contract employees. In addition, it is said that changes to regular employment treatment were basically expensive to be effective on April 4, 2022, and some employees were not covered.

The Verge inquires about this sentence about the EPIC GAMES side and has received an answer from the company's public relations. According to the public relations person, Epic Games adopts hundreds of contract employees as full-time regular employment. Most of them are "QA (QA (QA (QA (Quality Assurance Quality Assurance) 'staff. According to the same kagel, Epic Games has been a contract with QA staff through a staffing from Eastridge, Hays, and NextAff. However, it seems to have reviewed the treatment of contract employees through dispatch and decided to adopt the QA staff regularly. The staff who became regular employment should be directly employed of Epic Games instead of subsidiary staff. It will also be the subject of the company's benefits. On the other hand, the public relations personnel will continue to implement the policy of performing the employment of contract employees in the future if there is a short-term need.

QA is an important process that improves work defects and problems and affects the quality of the product. However, there were also difficulties in expertise as compared to other developers in terms of quality. Therefore, the staff such as testers also seemes a voice that appeals to the badness of salary and treatment (related articles). In addition, at the end of last year, Raven Software conducted a plurality of QA staff layoffs, and there were cases where it is claimed to be an invalid dismissal from the staff (related articles). Also in January this year, it is also connected to the establishment of the combined organization Game Workers Alliance by the company employees who are dissatisfied with this layoff (TechCrunch). There are many voices criticizing Raven Software's movement, and the momentum is increasing to protect QA staff among the US game companies.

This EPIC GAMES initiative can be said to be the first step to provide a stable working environment for such QA staff. In addition, Epic Games has also had a full working environment in 2019 (related articles). As long as employees 'voices increase power, there may be a face that embraces regular employees' regular employees as part of the health of the working environment. Going forward, I hope that many people involved in the game will proceed with confidence.