However, for health and safety reasons, we currently only have capacity in the studio for 22 people per day, with priority going to those who struggle to work from home.Įven if we get to a stage in the UK where life returns to ‘normal’, things are not going to be the same as they were before the pandemic. We have also continued hiring, to the point where the SI team now numbers more than 230, and we have a nice, new and much larger office. While some UK businesses are mandating a return to their offices, we have not enforced this as we believe it to be the wrong thing to do. While we had hoped that the majority of our team would be back in the studio for much of this year’s game cycle, the reality is that their health and safety has been our priority. This is why so many games that we are all waiting to play are still delayed as people try to adjust to working separately from their colleagues, while simultaneously dealing with the multiple productivity issues (both positive and negative) that have arisen from the new way of working and people’s individual circumstances. To reuse a line I’ve used a lot over the last 18 months… making games is hard, but making games during a pandemic is harder. Thanks to the wonders of science we do have vaccines, which are saving lives and making it easier for people to fight the virus, but there are still far too many cases around the world and it most certainly hasn’t gone away.
But here we are, one year later and Covid is still dominating the global conversation. At about this time last year, when I sat down to write a blog about how Sports Interactive and Football Manager were affected by the Covid pandemic, I thought that was going to be a ‘one-off’.
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