Sources report that CCP Games is evaluating remote employment options in light of what is anticipated to be ongoing and escalating threats of volcanic activity near CCP HQ in Reykjavík. Ardent fans with advanced technical skills have long lamented CCP’s hyper-local focus, which precludes hiring fully remote employees.
With fewer and fewer highly qualified individuals prepared to literally throw themselves and their families into the very cauldron of Mount Doom, CCP is under increasing pressure to consider a more global hiring strategy. Will CCP finally join the trailing edge of technology companies leveraging a global talent pool? Will they set aside their nationalistic approach, and embrace location diversity?
Apparently not.
“This is fine,” one engineering manager said on condition of anonymity. “We have tea in the canteen. Besides, our mission is to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life. What better way to live up to that mission than by asking our teams to continue working right here in Reykjavík, even as lava consumes their e-bikes on the rack outside?”
CCP is not, however, entirely without compassion, and continues to offer a double workstation setup, so that employees can continue working from wherever they may be within Iceland. Some team members are considering the purchase of an Immersed Visor package so that they can continue to work on multiple screens from their laptops even while displaced from their homes.
There’s really no need to be distracted by the distressing sight of encroaching lava, after all, especially with so much to be gained by triggering /r/eve with ridiculous updates to the escape menu that generate rage-quit asset giveaways, rapidly followed by PLEX purchases to re-build once the initial fury subsides.
