yeah our IT dept was just like what do you want? take it with you. Makes sense, it was better than all the equipment sitting in storage for 2 months (we're being told dont expect to come back into the office until at least end of April)
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NA/EU PlayStation Employees will continue to work from home until at least April 30th, workers paid regardless if they can do remote work or not.
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Yeah, they've taken this seriously from the start. Wish it was the standard for all companies.
Yeah, the amount of flak they caught in that PAX thread was incredible. Definitely not one of ERA's better moments.
Good on Sony for this move and for their consideration to their employees since this whole virus issue began.
I don't know if that just means they will continue to work by moving work home or if it means they were already working from home.
Yep. And was very embarrassing when era jumped on them when they're the only ones that took this whole Covid-19 thing seriously at the start.
People were in such a rush to shit on Sony they made themselves look incredibly ignorant with what is now some of the worst aging posts ever seen on a video game forum.
Lol, that PAX thread had someone saying they looked weak for doing so. Oh man, I wish people had deaded the flu comparisons earlier, it led to so many shitty takes.
I'm so glad I stayed the hell away from that cursed thread, lol.
Good on Sony. They've shown great leadership in this regard right from the start.
A company that actually values its employees and their safety? Commendable.
I got given a brand new laptop as did the rest of my department. We're key workers though so going into work still for now but we have them as back up should the worst happen.
We have been since the initial shelter-in-place orders went out for the Bay Area. We just finished the second full week, and to be frank, the powers that be have been pretty goddamn awesome about this whole situation. I completely took it for granted that everything effectively just sort of went on as usual, except from home, and now I'm getting a painful reality check that that is not the situation for most.
I got a ton of shit for how hard I've (voluntarily) worked for this company, but they have made every possible extension of effort and support during this whole mess, and well before it became a thing. It's times like this that I see how leadership takes care of their staff, and everything from VPN access to benefits communication despite it being the end of our fiscal year has been really, really impressive.
People often react positively when I say I work at PlayStation, but this is one of the reasons I'm going to point to in the future for why I'm here for the long haul, come what may.
Animator from Riot Games was guest a on last episode of DLC Podcast, and she mentioned how work from home is in some ways better because people cannot bother her and waste time for consultations that could have "just been an email". Now those meetings can actually be done faster.
I for one am shocked that it's pretty much *crickets* in this thread after the disgusting behaviour that came out of the PAX cancellation thread. SHOCKED, I tell you ...
Literally everyone in the industry has been doing since the outbreak. I would be surprised if someone in the biz kept all their employees working in their studios in these weeks
Glad to hear it. At least Jim is doing something right for once.
There's no way that there's a thread on this site that has aged as badly as this one.
There's no way that there's a thread on this site that has aged as badly as this one.
Still worthy to praise where praise is due. I know enough people that lost their job over this. So it's good to hear some positive news.
I hope so too but I'm not sure that is the reality we are living in.
Hope that after the corona virus the smart working will become the main way to work. It's so arcaic to associate the idea of work with the necessity to move from home to another (distant) place for 5 or 6 days a week
All of those posters should get a permanent tag for their stupidity.
PlayStation, more than other platforms, is huge worldwide in a way that others are not so with that view in mind, all of their decisions about events etc in relation to COVID-19 have come from the right place. Good on them for this.