Support for industry unionization decreases to 28% among developers aged 55 and older.
Survey commentary indicates AI is expected to increase productivity for programmers and marketers while artists, voice actors and QA fear job losses, creating unequal outcomes.
About half of game developers report personally using generative AI tools at their workplace.
72% of developers aged 18-24 support industry unionization.
Developers who had the option to work fully remote reported the highest job satisfaction.
Developers with mandatory RTO, especially hybrid mandates, reported the most dissatisfaction.
Mass layoffs in the video games industry are causing significant problems and a sizable loss of talent according to commentary in the report and coverage.
35% of developers said they were impacted by layoffs—either seeing layoffs in their team/company or being laid off themselves.
David Bunnell co-founded PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld.
X is the brainchild of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
X is reportedly laying off dozens of employees.
Alphabet's moonshot X lab is reportedly restructuring to make it easier to spin projects out as independent startups.
Dave Mills created the Network Time Protocol (NTP) in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks.
Dave Mills, creator of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), died at age 85 on January 17.