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Skydance is offering voluntary buyouts and mandating a 5-day office week

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Skydance has not disclosed how many jobs it expects to cut after closing its Warner Bros. Discovery takeover on Oct. 6

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  1. Variety

    Skydance Is Offering Employees Voluntary Buyouts Ahead of Layoffs, Adopts 5-Days-per-Week In-Office Policy (opens Variety)

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    Skydance, as it embarks on the work to integrate the businesses of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, is offering certain employees a voluntary buyout in a “one-time offer.” The new program was outlined by chairman and CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz in a memo to staffers Monday.

  2. Independent Journal Review

    Skydance Offers Buyouts, Sets Five-Day Office Policy (opens Independent Journal Review)

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    As Skydance integrates Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, it is requiring employees to work in the office five days a week and offering eligible staff a one-time voluntary buyout. The program comes as the company targets more than $6 billion in cost savings, with layoffs expected but executives s…

  3. The Hollywood Reporter

    Skydance Launching Employee Buyout Program as Cost Savings Efforts Begin (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    The company is also moving all former Warner Bros. Discovery employees to five days per week, aligning with Paramount's return to office plan.

  4. Deadline

    Skydance Moves To Five-Day In-Office Policy Across Company (opens Deadline)

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    The new Skydance’s co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreitz have moved the full complement of staffers from Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to five days in a week in person. “We truly believe this is in the best interest of our company and our people.

  5. Insider

    Skydance is offering buyouts to employees who aren't willing to work in the office 5 days a week (opens Insider)

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    Skydance CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz are implementing a five-day RTO policy. Read the memo to employees.

  6. Bloomberg

    Skydance Asks Staff to Take Voluntary Buyouts Before Wider Cuts (opens Bloomberg)

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    Skydance Corp. co-Chief Executive Officer David Ellison told employees of the newly merged company that they will be expected to come into the office five days a week and if they don’t think they’ll be a good fit working there they can participate in a voluntary buyout offer.

  7. New York Post

    David Ellison’s Skydance unveils employee buyout program, orders five-day return to office (opens New York Post)

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    Companywide memo was signed by Ellison and Skydance co-CEO Ynon Kreiz, the former Mattel chief who joined the company earlier this month.

  8. Insider

    Here's the buyout package Skydance is offering employees who don't want to work in person 5 days a week (opens Insider)

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    Skydance told employees to return to the office five days per week or take a buyout offer. Here's how much staffers who opt in will get.

  9. Quartz

    Skydance is offering voluntary buyouts and mandating a 5-day office week (opens Quartz)

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    Skydance has not disclosed how many jobs it expects to cut after closing its Warner Bros. Discovery takeover on Oct. 6

  10. UPI

    Skydance to offer employee buyouts, demand in-office work (opens UPI)

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    Skydance co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreitz announced Monday via memo that the company will offer some employees a voluntary buy-out program.

  11. Fast Company

    Skydance issues 5-day RTO mandate, announces employee buyout program (opens Fast Company)

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    Skydance, the megastudio formed via the recent merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), is ordering workers back to the office full time and offering voluntary buyouts to certain employees.