Any news? What's happened to Milan and Madrid during the pandemic. Maybe evetything should run out of New York and London. Would save on overhead.

We should ALL be reaching out to reporters so we can expose Viacom’s mistreatment of employees. Journalists aren’t capitalizing on our grief, they’re trying to hold a company accountable for laying off hundreds during a PANDEMIC. Bob announced a $100... — read more 

Some arguing producing old and stale content similar to a Sbarro slice.

Starting at 11:00am going on throughout the day. Via phone calls and Skype/BlueJeans, etc with your manager. HR will also be on the call.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-04-24/redstone-cbs-viacom-merger-shareholder-lawsuit

How is it confirmed? Anyone know what groups are being hit ? There is nothing in NY or LA Warn reports like last time. The unions seem to know nothing.

Has it begun?

The company will definitely wait until the virus drama dwindles before doing mass layoffs in order to display some sort of compassion towards humanity.

Day of the week, time of day, all that- trying to better mentally prepare for this week .

What’s happening at Velocity, anyone know?

roles being shifted and moved around- bracing for impact

Various departments have said layoffs next week. Anyone know anything?

Are we honestly expected to just act like nothing happened? A little ridiculous that so many layoffs occurred in my department last week and we haven’t received a single email or meeting invite to address the issue

https://www.adweek.com/tv-video/viacomcbs-lays-off-several-contracted-workers-across-multiple-divisions/

My suggestion is to sell all the studios and buildings that Viacom and CBS owns and turn them all into skating rinks for people to enjoy. I mean why not they are skating on thin ice anyway. Sheri can be the first one to get on the ice to make sure it... — read more 

Forgive my ignorance... Lost some great PBEs in my department this week. We are very top heavy with executives who seem relatively unscathed with the layoffs so far. I’m trying to make sense of the below... 1) What did ViacomCBS make a $100M... — read more 

There are good and decent people left behind who are thinking of you all. Good luck to everyone.

Updates from Chris McCarthy's live: "That process and time is coming to a close" The week of 4/27 seems to be a big layoff week.

So, no mention of the mass non-staff layoff yesterday?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2020/04/08/viacomcbs-downward-spiral-is-accelerating-as-talk-of-unraveling-grows/#1b4c5a817b09

To a former employee of CBS and how they treated me like dirt, It's difficult for me not to be happy how low this company is going now:) https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-03-27/viacom-cbs-coronavirus

Disney is quietly laying people off during this crisis. Their managers have until April 17th to finger those who need to go. Anyone know if this is happening in our company?

I'm a cleaning service technician that services this company and other studios, sports franchises and large businesses. I've seen many of these celebrities singing songs and doing challenges on Instagram and Youtube to give back to people during... — read more 

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If they laid me off remotely, can I still get into the office to grab my stuff? (office is about to be locked down)

As if things weren't already bad with this company and now this? Get ready for the stock to even fall more and more and then both companies to be bought for like 10 cents.

How will that work? Postpone layoffs? Over email? Is bad press a concern?

COO of International Melody Tan and CFO of International Joel Krutz were let go. Both have been with company for over 15 years. Their assistants were also let go without warning.

The entire city is WFH for two weeks yet ViacomCBS is only enforcing WFH for two DAYS after someone in the building is infected? Why not err on the side of caution? Layoffs?

This will be an industry wide trend, I am 100% sure there will be a double digit drop in advertising spend... https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-media-advertising-industries-30f5a229-4cb1-4b2b-8332-923026ecb830.html Coronavirus scare hits... — read more 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/viacomcbs-ceo-says-company-willing-to-sell-simon-26-schuster/ar-BB10K51F While Netflix, Amazing, Hulu, and other companies are creating content that intrigues the audience and increases the company's... — read more 

https://deadline.com/2019/12/cbs-television-city-ex-employees-sue-network-facilitys-new-owner-over-lost-jobs-lack-of-buyout-offers-1202798768/

Thoughts??

Not a lay-off, but a big blow to CBS. Judge Judy’s last season was announced. This is a huge show - upwards of 9 million viewers a day.