EA on Salon.
December 2nd, 2004
The uproar at Electronic Arts is a sign of yet another gut check for high-tech workers. We’ve come a long way from the dot-com boom days just a few years ago, when programmers and digital artists were celebrated for their tireless ability to work inhuman hours in pursuit of the start-up dream: creating something so new, so quickly it would make them all zillionaires.
Salon covers the Electronic Arts “sweatshop” story. (Previously on dsandler.org: 11/12/04 “Whelmed”; 11/16/01 “Requiem for having been”).