For employees who were hired as remote, how are they being handled? Are SVPs/EVPs given the opportunity to prove why they are valuable? Or are top leaders just making the decisions? Understand this will be addressed in Phase 2, but if a remote worker lives in a state where there is no Paramount Office to report to, are their leaders able to fight for them or are top executives just making the call to let them go say in Nov?
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Second quarter the company will transition from SAP to Oracle. With the largest remote population being tech they want to get past that transition before cutting there. Since they show they aren’t complex thinkers nor concerned with the actual employees roles, it was easier to lump all remote in one bucket. Per the FAQs Phase 2 will address remote workers with that being finalized at the start of Q3.
There’s no plan for Phase 2 yet because it includes international markets where there are major labor law hurdles involved. In most of Europe and Latin America it would be easier to shut down the entire presence in the country than to force RTO on workers deemed as remote and basically eat a bag of lengthy and costly lawsuits.
When Musk made his cuts into Twitter, it wasn’t really about his disdain for WFH types. He cut 80% because he saw 80% as not vital. Twitter was in massive negative cash flow.
DE is doing the same thing. Getting Paramount to a head count that is necessary to move the company forward. Do you really think, in Phase 2, that he’s going to be sour over the remaining scraps of remote workers who he can’t logistically cram into 1515/NYC and he couldn’t fire because they are tasked with three times the workload?
He won’t, he’s on to other things by that point.
@aw So much more fun to break them in person rather than from afar. How would he know whether they're sleeping under their desks if they're not on an office surveillance cam (provided by Oracle -- it's coming).
Remote in the US is over. The Nepo baby wants all his new toys at home.
Once all the cuts are made after November and many leave during phase 1, anything goes. They care about hitting that number and money. Again, Phase 1 is a scare tactic, November being cut down.
They really don't care about what happens after Phase 1 and November.
Thats why they don't have a plan for Phase 2. They have to see what on earth they have to work with their depleted workforce next January. It's always about money.
By Q3 2026 there may be very few exceptional cases Remote employees in US . Rest working from office or let go before that time .
Unless you're in a mission critical role and the cost of replacing you is too high I doubt you're going to get VP approval for remote. RTO is going to happen no matter what. If it can happen at Amazon it's definitely happening here.
I hope. Did see there new jobs for fully remote on Paramount careers site gives me some hope that those in higher positions can fight for their teams but it's a glimmer of hope
I'm legitimately so sorry to break this to you, but from what I can tell, nobody is fighting for us sweetie :(