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Netflix CEO Doesn’t See Any Positives To Working From Home

While the COVID-19 pandemic has seen many companies, including Netflix, transition to allowing employees to work from home full time, Netflix founder Reed Hastings isn’t a fan. While Netflix’s work from home arrangements will continue as long as necessary to keep its employees safe from COVID-19, Hastings has said he sees no benefit to the practice.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Hastings was asked whether he saw any positives to staff working from home. “No. I don’t see any positives,” he said, “Not being able to get together in person, particularly internationally, is a pure negative.” Despite this, he predicted that most employees would continue to work at least one day from home even after the pandemic ended.

Netflix has almost 20 offices around the globe, not including the locations where Netflix-led productions are shot. On the topic of those productions, Hastings indicated that they were “up and running in much of Europe and much of Asia,” with a few productions starting up in Los Angeles as well. “The hope is that, through September and October, we can really get – with proper testing – a lot more running,” he said.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Chinese Localization Teases Massive Game Size

Every detail we’ve seen out of Cyberpunk 2077 so far has hammered in how massive it will be, and this behind-the-scenes look at the voice recording for the Chinese localization is no different. A sneak peek says the voice work includes 15%-20% more lines than The Witcher 3 did–including both of its huge DLC add-ons.

The statistics were tweeted by video game analyst Daniel Ahmad, along with a photo of some of the cast in the recording studio. The Chinese localization alone required “more than 150 voice actors, 100,000 lines, 4 recording studios, and 10,000 person hours,” according to Ahmad.

Interestingly, Cyberpunk 2077 won’t actually get an official release in China’s notoriously strict entertainment market, but will still be available to Chinese players through Steam. According to Ahmad, CD Projekt Red has a good reputation among players in China, and at one point it was even the top market for pre-orders of the upcoming game. You can check out what Cyberpunk sounds like in Mandarin Chinese in the demo footage below:

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