Maybe I'm young and naïve, or just a sociopathic workaholic, as I'm crunching this month, every saturday till the 31st included. Definitely not the best feeling in the world, but I'm trying to look at it positively - its more relaxed and calm, less people to bother you, and as with every other EU country - its completely voluntary (you can always decline and they can't really force you unless they want the working committee to tear them to pieces), its paid double (or depending on local regulations it can be 175% for weekends and up to 300% on holidays), its a 6 hours workday and you get additional dayoffs/paid leaves for after the chrunching ends. I for one, already have my 10 dayoffs approved for 19th of November, just in time for the PS5 launch(fingers crossed its gonna get delivered) and a spa-vacation(crossing the remaining fingers there wont be any more lockdowns).
So, unless i've missed some info, we dont really know how the CDPR employees are threated in terms of all the available compensations according to EU and local laws and regulations. If all the compensations are due, then I'd say to each, their own, but if it's more like the Nougaty Dogs situation with all the reports and sources, I'd be surprised if things dont escalate, especially after all the bad press around this.
As for the email posted on twitter, we had similar one when shit hit the fan mid march, for when they had to temporary cut some corners/bonuses/stuff, but thanked us for continued support and great work for OUR company. Yey Capitalism, I guess?