# V2 No-Crunch Commitment

V2 uses a 40-hour baseline work week. Launch readiness cannot be achieved by
normalizing overtime, weekend work, or hidden heroics. Production quality,
retention, safety, and the no-stub oath all depend on sustainable pacing.

## Baseline

- Standard week: 40 hours.
- Planning target: 32 hours of committed delivery plus 8 hours for review,
  planning, support, learning, and unavoidable interrupts.
- Weekend and holiday work is prohibited except for designated on-call
  operations and genuine emergency exceptions.
- On-call work is scheduled, compensated, and tracked separately from normal
  production work.

## Emergency Exception Process

An overtime exception can be approved only for a genuine emergency:

- platform certification deadline at risk
- critical-path blocker with no viable scope reduction
- live security, privacy, payment, or safety incident
- production data loss or release-blocking build failure

Approval requires the production director, discipline lead, HR/people partner,
and wellness delegate. Each exception records owner, affected team, reason,
expected duration, risk if declined, scope alternatives considered, and
mandatory time-off compensation.

## Compensation And Recovery

Emergency overtime creates mandatory recovery time. Comp time is scheduled in
the next sprint unless the employee asks for a later date and HR approves.
Repeated exceptions trigger a release-scope review before any new work can be
added to the team.

## Workload Monitoring

Each discipline reports weekly hours to studio leadership. A team is flagged
when average hours exceed baseline, when any individual exceeds the exception
threshold, or when PTO usage drops below the mandatory minimum.

## PTO

PTO has a mandatory annual minimum, tracked usage, and carryover caps to prevent
unused-time accumulation. Leads must plan coverage so PTO is used without
punishing the team that remains online.

## Weekend And Holiday Rule

Weekend and holiday production work is off by default. Volunteers cannot be used
to hide schedule debt. Emergency work must use the exception process, include
comp time, and be visible in the workload report.