EA Spouse
Hoffman's blog post, under the pseudonym "EA Spouse" was posted in 2004. In 2006, her true identity was revealed, and that she had been fiancée of Leander Hasty, who was employed at the time by Electronic Arts. She gave the reasons for writing the blog as follows: "We had received so many excuses, and they had done so much overtime and everyone was so tired." Hoffman said before telling her fiancé, "I need to write something about this. It's not right."
Hoffman's actions, in part, led to the filing of three class action lawsuits against Electronic Arts and some changes throughout the industry at large, such as reclassification of entry-level artists as hourly employees, thus making them eligible for overtime under California law.
Hoffman's fiancé Leander Hasty was the main plaintiff in the successful class action suit on behalf of software engineers at Electronic Arts, which in 2007 awarded the plaintiffs USD $14.9 million for unpaid overtime.
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