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Ubisoft asking all staff to return to office full-time to "boost the collective performance for AAA"
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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I'm super supportive of workmfrom home because I want to work from home myself, but I am also a bit of a manager and understand where these companies are coming from...
I am a bit of a co-manager and the guy that I split my workload with I just feel like I get taken advantage of because because I have no idea what the fuck he even does most of the day working from home himself. It's sometimes really hard to keep track of what people are working on and how efficient they are doing it when you can't even tell if they just took the day off with pay or not.
But if the output of technical work isn't apparent in any way besides measuring indirect metrics like "hours of butt in seat", don't we have a much bigger problem?
We are supposed to work from home two days a week, but we must sign an agreement that it will be such and such day. Or we can have one single moving day. Can you smell the bullshit? In practice I never signed anything and we all do as we fucking please because fuck HR. So right now I'm in the office alone because it's great to have a big desk and good light with a beautiful sight on the countryside, and I get free heating.
But yeah, we have a few contractors right now and we have no idea what they are doing or if they are useful at all. Which would be fine, except when we do get to see their work, it's usually all over the place in terms of quality and we often have to rewrite a lot of it.
But that's not an issue with remote, that's an issue with managing people, I think. If they're shite at their job and we gave them one, we have to teach them to get better. Which is easier and more efficient on site, sure, but you can't really be sitting next to them checking their screen all day. At some point you gotta trust them and judge them on results.