EA: The Human Story – EA Spouse (2004)

TITLE
EA: The Human Story

AUTHOR
EA Spouse [Erin Hoffman]

PUBLICATION
EA Spouse

YEAR
2004

ARTICLE TYPE
Article

FROM THE ARTICLE
My significant other works for Electronic Arts, and I’m what you might call a disgruntled spouse.

EA’s bright and shiny new corporate trademark is “Challenge Everything.” Where this applies is not exactly clear. Churning out one licensed football game after another doesn’t sound like challenging much of anything to me; it sounds like a money farm. To any EA executive that happens to read this, I have a good challenge for you: how about safe and sane labor practices for the people on whose backs you walk for your millions?

COMPANIES MENTIONED
Electronic Arts

PEOPLE MENTIONED
EA Spouse [Erin Hoffman]

TOPICS MENTIONED
Working Conditions

NOTES
EA Spouse was a then-pseudonymous post on Live Journal, and one of the earliest accounts of the adverse working conditions and excessive crunch in the video industry.