{"id":110003,"date":"2020-03-06T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/nintendo_joins_microsoft_and_bungie_with_work_from_home_policy_in_face_of_coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-06T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T19:00:00","slug":"nintendo-joins-microsoft-and-bungie-with-work-from-home-policy-in-face-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/06\/nintendo-joins-microsoft-and-bungie-with-work-from-home-policy-in-face-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Joins Microsoft And Bungie With &#8216;Work From Home&#8217; Policy In Face Of Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e2e04b213963e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e2e04b213963e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"NoA\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e2e04b213963e\/noa.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e2e04b213963e\/noa.900x.jpg\" alt=\"NoA\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Nintendo<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo and joined the likes of Microsoft and Bungie by bringing in a &#8216;work from home&#8217; policy for its staff in the face of the growing threat of the global coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Echoing statements released by Microsoft and <strong>Destiny<\/strong> studio Bungie, Nintendo told <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/microsoft-bungie-enact-work-from-home-policies-in-resp-1842133691\">Kotaku<\/a><em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nintendo of America has taken the precautionary step to allow NOA employees in the states of California and Washington the opportunity to work from home. The safety and wellbeing of our employees is our top priority. We are continuing to closely monitor COVID-19 developments, and share our concerns and support for those affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the only way coronavirus has made its presence felt in the games industry today; earlier on, we reported on a delay to the production and shipping of Konami&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/pc_engine_mini_production_and_shipment_delayed_indefinitely_by_coronavirus\">PC Engine Mini<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/2020_pokemon_europe_international_championships_are_the_latest_coronavirus_victim\">2020 Pok\u00e9mon Europe International Championships<\/a> has also be cancelled in the wake of the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Nintendo Nintendo and joined the likes of Microsoft and Bungie by bringing in a &#8216;work from home&#8217; policy for its staff in the face of the growing threat of the global coronavirus outbreak. Echoing statements released by Microsoft and Destiny studio Bungie, Nintendo told Kotaku: Nintendo of America has taken the precautionary step to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}