brokenswiftie

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Daniel Ahmad on Twitter

“Sony is establishing a $100 million fund to support those around the world affected by the COVID-19 virus. Sony will provide support for medical staff on the front lines, support for remote education and support for the entertainment industry. https://t.co/CTP7BTXbqr”

Through this fund, Sony will provide support in three areas: assistance for those individuals engaged in frontline medical and first responder efforts to fight the virus, support for children and educators who must now work remotely, and support for members of the creative community in the entertainment industry, which has been greatly impacted by the spread of the virus.

In terms of medical support, 10 million U.S. dollars of the fund will be devoted first to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO powered by the UN Foundation and Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, as well as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to assist medical workers and others on the frontline of response efforts to the virus. Sony will also work with its external partners to explore ways that it can support activities that prevent the further spread and contribute to treatment of the COVID-19 virus.

Kenichiro Yoshida, President and CEO, Sony Corporation, said, "Sony extends its condolences to the families of those who have passed away as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, and extends its sympathies to all those who have been impacted. In order to overcome the unprecedented challenges that as a society we now face around the world, we will do all we can as a global company to support the individuals on the frontlines of the battle against COVID-19, the children who are our future, and those who have been impacted in the creative community."

Pretty cool of Sony to do this
 

modiz

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Oct 8, 2018
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Really cool of them to do this. Most of this is probably more relevant to etcetera but there is this part on how Sony will assist creatives in the entertainment industry:
Furthermore, in terms of the creative community such as music, pictures, games and animation, together with its group companies engaged in the entertainment industry, Sony will seek ways to support up-and-coming creators, artists and all those in professions supporting the industry, who have been impacted by the cancellation or postponement of concerts and live events, or the shutting down of film and television productions.
 

RestEerie

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make sense really. Sony Corp at large provides alot of imaging sensors and equipment to the medical field so this is nice.
 

Bundy

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Very well done by Sony. They reacted really quick (canceling their PAX and GDC appearance early) even tho people gave them shit for it.

Then this:
www.resetera.com

NA/EU PlayStation Employees will continue to work from home until at least April 30th, workers paid regardless if they can do remote work or not.

Didn't see a thread on this but good news. And in another tweet says as far as he knows it extends to the WWS teams as well.

And now this:
www.sony.net

Sony Establishes $100 Million COVID-19 Global Relief Fund

Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation today announced the establishment of the “Sony Global Relief Fund for COVID-19,” a 100 million US dollar fund to support those around the world affected by the COVID-19 virus.

They are handling this "world crisis" the best they can. Just awesome.
 

Nightfall

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Oct 27, 2017
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Sony's doing the right thing here. Great to hear it.
Yet other wealthy companies *cough*Adidas*cough* just try to take advantage of the government help intended for smaller companies.
So good to see that not all mega corporations are greedy.
 

texhnolyze

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Very well done by Sony. They reacted really quick (canceling their PAX and GDC appearance early) even tho people gave them shit for it.

Then this:
www.resetera.com

NA/EU PlayStation Employees will continue to work from home until at least April 30th, workers paid regardless if they can do remote work or not.

Didn't see a thread on this but good news. And in another tweet says as far as he knows it extends to the WWS teams as well.

And now this:
www.sony.net

Sony Establishes $100 Million COVID-19 Global Relief Fund

Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation today announced the establishment of the “Sony Global Relief Fund for COVID-19,” a 100 million US dollar fund to support those around the world affected by the COVID-19 virus.

They are handling this "world crisis" the best they can. Just awesome.
Yup, they're really ahead of everyone else. Based Sony.
 

Cranster

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night814

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No reason for any of the big corps not to help as much as they can. Good on then for being very ahead of the curve with them pulling out of GDC and PAX too
 

Sidewinder

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Very well done by Sony. They reacted really quick (canceling their PAX and GDC appearance early) even tho people gave them shit for it.

Then this:
www.resetera.com

NA/EU PlayStation Employees will continue to work from home until at least April 30th, workers paid regardless if they can do remote work or not.

Didn't see a thread on this but good news. And in another tweet says as far as he knows it extends to the WWS teams as well.

And now this:
www.sony.net

Sony Establishes $100 Million COVID-19 Global Relief Fund

Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation today announced the establishment of the “Sony Global Relief Fund for COVID-19,” a 100 million US dollar fund to support those around the world affected by the COVID-19 virus.

They are handling this "world crisis" the best they can. Just awesome.

Thought the same lately, I love PlayStation and the games etc. but wouldn't expect anything from a big corporation like Sony, but they've made some real good decisions lately, so kudos to them!
 

Qvoth

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I'm fully expecting MS to one up that amount, anything less would be a bad PR move
 

Samanyolu

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Class act. They've handled everything around this corona business so well; From protecting, paying and even giving a bonus to their employees, to the extent of being mocked by some, to giving back to the community. Little unexpected from my part, imo, but absolute class nonetheless.
 

TheRulingRing

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Wow damn 100 million? That's waaay more than any other corp I've seen so far.

A real good gesture by Sony.
 

Brohan

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That's really great! Sony as a company really seems to be taking covid-19 seriously and they did so from the start.
 
Oct 31, 2017
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Damn, that's awfully nice of them. 😁 I guess arrogant Sony is no more. For real though, they've been taking this virus seriously from the very beginning. It still feels like yesterday when people were laughing at them for backing out of GDC due to Coronavirus concerns.
 

Tiago Rodrigues

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Very well done by Sony. They reacted really quick (canceling their PAX and GDC appearance early) even tho people gave them shit for it.

Then this:
www.resetera.com

NA/EU PlayStation Employees will continue to work from home until at least April 30th, workers paid regardless if they can do remote work or not.

Didn't see a thread on this but good news. And in another tweet says as far as he knows it extends to the WWS teams as well.

And now this:
www.sony.net

Sony Establishes $100 Million COVID-19 Global Relief Fund

Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation today announced the establishment of the “Sony Global Relief Fund for COVID-19,” a 100 million US dollar fund to support those around the world affected by the COVID-19 virus.

They are handling this "world crisis" the best they can. Just awesome.

I was about to post something like this.
Remember just 2 months ago how Sony was canceling everything and people were saying they were just overreacting and using Covid 19 as an excuse because they had nothing to show? You know...before the USA was having 25k new cases per day? Good times!