- Video game maker Eidos-Montreal is switching to a four-day week, closing on Fridays.
- Salaries won't change, and workers' hours will go from 40 a week to 32, it said.
Staff at the Canadian game studio Eidos-Montreal will no longer have to work Friday after the company announced a switch to a four-day work week.
The studio, which is currently developing Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" game and has about 500 employees, said salaries won't change and that workers' hours would drop from 40 a week to 32.
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"We want a real collaborative aspect so that the teams contribute to the transition, each one working to define the parameters and criteria for success for the organization of work and deadlines," he wrote in the blog post.
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Eidos-Montreal, owned by publisher Square Enix, is known for its work on games in the "Deus Ex" series, as well as for 2018's "Shadow of the Tomb Raider."