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Chucklefish ups pay to help staff with cost of living crisis

Chucklefish ups pay to help staff with cost of living crisis

London-based game developer and publisher Chucklefish has given its staff a pay rise to help them cope with the UK's cost of living crisis.

The news was revealed on Twitter by the company's comms manager Alexis Trust – spotted by GI.biz – who said that the firm had given employees a £4,000 ($xxxx) increase in pay to help with the massive energy bills UK citizens are currently facing.

"Management at Chucklefish just announced a £4k pay increase across the company to help with horrid bill increases," Trust wrote.

"Should probably add that this was on top of the 10% increase they gave us back in April. Feel extremely lucky right now."

Chucklefish has also moved to a four day working week in 2021.

"Back in 2021 we kicked off 4-day working with no pay decrease which has been incredibly successful for the studio," Trust continued. "Not to mention we've had a no-crunch policy that's been in place for several years. This works thanks to excellent planning, talented colleges and mutual empathy."


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Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.