I get currently 20 days + all bank holidays(11) + day after thanksgiving, and the week after xmas(so far). All and all ~36, that's WAY more than i will ever use.
I've never heard of any game studio using this as a standard weekly allocation like google does. clarification: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/googles-20-percent-time-in-action.html I have heard of studios having in-house game competitions, using a couple of weeks or days of studio time, to gather new ideas and…
I work in television - core hours of 9a to 7 p. hour lunch taken between 1 and 3. Crunch times can last as long as 18 to 20 hours. No overtime pay. No vacation, no sick days. They look at us as Freelance but we are required to show up to the office every day and put in the mandated 10 hours. If we miss time we get our pay…