Anyone have any insight? Are teams actively planning for layoffs?
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@11n I'm relaxed. I wrote 5 sentences about corporate restructuring and layoffs, that’s all. Also hard to tell what's a recurring joke and what's genuine revisionist history around here sometimes.
@119 Relax, this is a recurring “joke,” like all the comments about Caribbean workers.
I don't remember anyone saying "one and done for calendar year 2025."
The messaging was about avoiding recurring rounds of layoffs every quarter, not about a promise that expired at midnight on December 31st.
That said, it's also worth noting that the "one and done" messaging came from JS who's no longer here, and the company is operating under very different circumstances than it was when that statement was made. I wouldn't treat comments from August 2025 as a guarantee of anything in 2026.
Anyone expecting no additional cuts as integration continues is probably setting themselves up for disappointment.
@r8 If you listened to what they said, they said one and done for THE YEAR. Wake up... it's a new year. That was last year.
@r8 I miss Jeff.
@n3 Sounds like a misinformation. There will be no layoffs. Leadership clearly said last year that layoffs would be one and done, and that already happened. Trust the leadership.
@gg And they gave Kurtzman approximately $160 million to destroy ST. Insanity..
I would like to known if any of those people who were involved got laid off.
@ff agree. A wave coming and a larger one after is what I’m hearing. Rumor is same at WBD
I trust James to keep us in the loop.
@jh Not if it doesn't hit the news. When it's contractors and/or numbers less than a certain amount per location they don't have to report it publicly
@ff stop lying no wave is coming before. It’s not planned and more important it would look bad in the eyes of regulators who have to approve the deal.
Claude code gonna put all you whiney annoying streaming geeks out of work
Paramount keeps laying off employees while pouring money into expensive franchise shows that failed in execution. Halo and much of the recent Star Trek output under Alex Kurtzman weren't bad IPs. They had massive built-in audiences and every opportunity to succeed. The problem was the writing, storytelling, and creative direction. Most of the writers, producers, and directors involved are contractors, not employees. Paramount should start with cutting the people making these creative decisions before cutting more staff.
Who keeps hiring these people in the first place?? And I haven't even gotten started on Stephen Colbert...
There is a wave coming before, and bigger wave after…
James Faris says we don’t have to worry yet.
I feel like any premerger layoffs will be like 60 mins — trying to weed out what they see as priority problems. Most of it will take months and months post merger. It’s going to drag on, because it’s a small company buying a much bigger one. Skydance already thought paramount folks made too much money. Wb make like 30% more. If you can keep cheaper paramount people over wb then you will unless there are wb guys with special skills or knowledge. They won’t touch product lion/creative at first. Backoffice will be in big trouble. Finance, legal, hr