Skydance offers buyouts, orders return to office

wiseowise

> We’ve seen the benefits firsthand at Paramount, and we want every part of Skydance to share in them. We won’t share the benefits, of course. But trust me, bro, they’re Hugh Mongus.

sciencesama

the downfall has begun ! enshittification at its finest !

nonameiguess

It feels almost non-sequitur for a film and television studio, of all company types, to care about something like this. Your most important employees aren't even employees and they work on-site gig to gig. You live or die on whether you can make another Mission Impossible series, get the public to give a shit about the DC universe, whether the NFL and NBA can succeed in their bids to go international. Who gives a shit if the corporate accountants come to the office or not? It's like Eisenhower on the eve of D-Day fretting over how clean the bathrooms were in the Pentagon.

aaronbrethorst

I was wondering where David Zaslav landed in all this. Can’t say I’m really surprised by the answer: https://www.cartoonbrew.com/executives/david-zaslav-606-mill...

CottonBuds

I assume David Ellison will also be in the office 5 days a week?

azov

There should be a hefty tax on corporations insisting on having people in the office for jobs that can be done remotely. Maybe frame it as a tax break for companies that avoid stressing public infrastructure and wasting resources for dubious reasons.

highway900

What moat do the film/tv media companies really have anymore. Distribution is no longer locked to cinema or cable. Obviously production costs are still something that requires a lot of investment. But smaller budget films have been proven to be very successful. Most tools are free these days.

linuxftw

You would think tech workers in the deep blue states would be leading unionization efforts to kill this kind of stuff before AI finally fires all of us, but no dice.