{"id":110988,"date":"2020-03-30T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/360350"},"modified":"2020-03-30T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T23:24:00","slug":"kojima-productions-working-remotely-after-employee-diagnosed-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/30\/kojima-productions-working-remotely-after-employee-diagnosed-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Kojima Productions working remotely after employee diagnosed with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Death Stranding <\/em>developer Kojima Productions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kojimaproductions.jp\/uploads\/press\/6452a9b3f7a1127c60d01b56ea1973072797a72a.pdf\">announced today<\/a> that all staff currently working will be doing so from home for the foreseeable future after a sick employee was diagnosed with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the latest in a string of high-profile game companies (notably Nintendo, Bungie, and Microsoft) making a show of <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/359583\/Nintendo_staff_working_from_home_after_employee_tests_positive_for_coronavirus.php\">allowing employees to work remotely<\/a> in the face of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has inspired authorities around the world to enact quarantine measures.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kojimaproductions.jp\/uploads\/press\/6452a9b3f7a1127c60d01b56ea1973072797a72a.pdf\">press release<\/a> published today, Kojima Productions recently learned that a staff member who has been out of the office since Friday, March 20th tested positive for COVID-19. The company has since been working with Tokyo health authorities to take appropriate measures, including sanitizing the office.<\/p>\n<p>Kojima Productions says that while it&#8217;s not required to close the studio since the infected employee was not in the office at the time symptoms developed, it has done so anyway and will &#8220;continue working closely with our public health authorities and enact additional precautions as necessary to prevent further spread&#8221; of the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death Stranding developer Kojima Productions announced today that all staff currently working will be doing so from home for the foreseeable future after a sick employee was diagnosed with COVID-19. It&#8217;s the latest in a string of high-profile game companies (notably Nintendo, Bungie, and Microsoft) making a show of allowing employees to work remotely in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110988","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=110988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}