{"id":348169,"date":"2025-10-22T12:56:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/bugsnax-studio-four-day-work-week"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:56:53","slug":"bugsnax-studio-young-horses-moving-to-four-day-work-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/bugsnax-studio-young-horses-moving-to-four-day-work-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugsnax studio Young Horses moving to four-day work weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bugsnax-studio-young-horses-moving-to-four-day-work-weeks.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/bugsnax-developer-four-day-workweeks-9dbea139-cda0-4c93-83ca-d921e3eecd7b.html\">reported<\/a> that <strong>Bugsnax<\/strong> developer Young Horses shifted to a four-day work week in July. The team of eight adjusted its workflow to accommodate four-day, 32-hour work weeks to combat the need for crunching and to help the well-being of the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Might as well give people the peace of mind that they can relax doing their own thing on their own time than have someone feel guilty for doing it at work,&#8221; explained Young Horses co-founder and president Phil Tibitoski. &ldquo;We know what we have to get done and by when, or we&#8217;re making our own schedule entirely and things get done when they get done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crunch has been an ongoing problem in games development, with awareness of the practice dating all the way back to the days of EA Spouse. It continues to be a huge problem in the games industry, with multiple big-name studios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/cyberpunk-2077-goes-mandatory-crunch-studio-head-says-will-well-compensated\">resigning themselves<\/a> to crunch as an unavoidable reality of game development. Tibitoski acknowledges that the reason Young Horses was able to implement these changes is because it&#8217;s a smaller studio: &ldquo;&#8221;It was easier for us to implement because to measure our small team&#8217;s output is simple relative to those bigger studios, so our trial period and decision-making is faster than a studio who has to get buy-in from so many departments and investors.&#8221; Still, many prominent devs are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/ratchet-and-clank-rift-apart-crunch-free-insomniac\">pushing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/psychonauts-2-no-crunch\">back<\/a> against crunch, including bigger studios.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/bugsnax-studio-four-day-work-week\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/bugsnax-studio-four-day-work-week\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios reported that Bugsnax developer Young Horses shifted to a four-day work week in July. The team of eight adjusted its workflow to accommodate four-day, 32-hour work weeks to combat the need for crunching and to help the well-being of the team. &#8220;Might as well give people the peace of mind that they can relax doing their own thing on their own time than have someone feel guilty for doing it at work,&#8221; explained Young Horses co-founder and president Phil Tibitoski. &ldquo;We know what we have to get done and by when, or we&#8217;re making our own schedule entirely and things get done when they get done.&#8221; Crunch has been an ongoing problem in games development, with awareness of the practice dating all the way&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/bugsnax-studio-young-horses-moving-to-four-day-work-weeks\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5711,1068,5710,49,59,52,44,45,3839,5712,84],"class_list":["post-348169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-bugsnax","tag-cd-projeckt-red","tag-double-fine-studios","tag-insomniac-games","tag-pc","tag-playstation","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-psychonauts-2","tag-ratchetclank-rift-apart","tag-young-horses"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bugsnax studio Young Horses moving to four-day work weeks | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Axios reported that Bugsnax developer Young Horses shifted to a four-day work week in July. 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