<story><title>Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More</title><url>https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-will-pay-its-workers-10-more/1100-6511268/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickpeterson</author><text>I’ve always heard that Japanese software developers were very poorly paid compared to their us counterparts. This 10% might be pretty terrible if your peers received large raises for years beforehand.&lt;p&gt;I do feel like something is off with Nintendo, their games seem very scarce recently. Either they’re launching a new system this year at e3 or Covid really messed up their dev practices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laurieg</author><text>Japanese employment law is a bit of a double edged sword.  It&amp;#x27;s very difficult to fire employees, so if you hire someone on a high salary and it turns out they weren&amp;#x27;t worth it you are now stuck with an employee for years or decades.  You basically have to show that employee is malicious to get rid of them.  Low wages is one way to soften this risk.&lt;p&gt;The other side of this is many people are not full time employees.  Dispatch (派遣) employees are employed by one company and then sent to work alongside regular employees at other companies, with the dispatch company taking a good slice.  The employer is now able to shrink their workforce more easily and the employee gets a smaller piece of the pie.&lt;p&gt;Simply writing a temporary contract might not even be enough.  Recent changes to the law say that if you have been on temporary contract that is renewed for 5 years then you have the right to full time employment with the same conditions.  Now you see plenty of people getting let go at 4 years, just to be on the safe side.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More</title><url>https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-will-pay-its-workers-10-more/1100-6511268/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickpeterson</author><text>I’ve always heard that Japanese software developers were very poorly paid compared to their us counterparts. This 10% might be pretty terrible if your peers received large raises for years beforehand.&lt;p&gt;I do feel like something is off with Nintendo, their games seem very scarce recently. Either they’re launching a new system this year at e3 or Covid really messed up their dev practices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Analemma_</author><text>I have a friend at Nvidia who worked on the GPU for the Switch, and so worked closely with Nintendo employees, and he said he was appalled at how much more he made than people at his equivalent seniority. It&amp;#x27;s pretty bad.</text></comment>