Based on my team and what I’ve heard so far it feels like half the people I work with took the opt out. Lot of big hitters and people who have been around a while. And they’re only the ones I know about. Wondering if this is similar across the company or I’m just in a department where people can’t wait to leave.
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@hv There is a massive difference between replacing one person and replacing 50% of P+ employees all at once. You know that.
@hv True that nobody is irreplaceable, especially if it's done slowly, one person at a time, while continue to retain the collective skills, exp and knowledge. In that manner, you can truly replace anybody. Trying to replace all of the remote workers with onsite workers all at once is a completely different ballgame. Is it doable? Maybe, I guess we'll find out next year. But somehow I think that our top management is smart enough not to attempt it. If anything, we will see a very gradual transition from remote to onsite, with many exceptions. Also it's likely that key team members will be offered relo pkgs.
@h9 this is wishful thinking from remote employees who hope that the execs will change his mind. P+ will be fine without remote employees. Streaming tech isn't AI research. There's nobody working at P+ that is 1 of 1 in their field. Everyone can be replaced.
@ez Are you implying there's a "don't crash" button that someone has to push every morning? It's a global streaming service that has to work on a ton of different devices. A million things could go wrong every day, and if we lost half the people who support it, that makes it much more difficult to fix - or to fix quickly, at least.
@ew Global streaming services (Netflix, Prime, and yes, P+) require maintenance. I'm sad that this is news to you.
Eh people w lots of years might be taking it. Doesn’t make sense for anyone jr.
@es can you explain why that would be case? What would cause it to crash? Are there manual intervention that the team does everyday to keep the site from crashing?
@d9 they’re banking on the job market tanking so that they’ll have no trouble hiring with the surplus of job seekers in a surging unemployment rate. That’s why they have no trouble firing. The job market favors employers right now. Thank orange man for the tanking US economy.
@es that also explains how badly it is built.
@ek If all the remote workers stopped working, Paramount+ would be down for good in 2 days. I don't think you have any idea how much of that group - from VPs to engineers - is remote.
@d5 if all the remote workers stopped working others would do the job and nobody would notice
@d9 yes!!!!!
Everyone who keeps saying things like "hopefully they will hit their target of $2billion or 2000 people" Seriously, if they can get rid of more, they will. The target will just increase. If they hit 2000-3500 people voluntarily, they would still go for more! They can clearly recruit people again, where they want them, if they need them.
None of us saw the phase 1 and phase 2 thing coming. We just saw RTO coming in general. Neither phase 1 or phase 2 people had a say regarding the timeline and unfair separation of the groups. Please don't hate on the remote workers or people in other offices. They were/are just doing what they were hired to do.
A lot of VPs took the deal where I am - fewer Director & below .... Losing those VP salaries will get them close to their $ target but I guess they will still want to hit the 2,000-3,000 headcount number they talked about and that's going to have to come from the bottom.
Clearly you have no idea of what you are talking about. If all the remote workers stop working at the same time, the system would collapse in under 2 weeks.
Why is Phase 2 happening in 2026? These remote workers have an unfair advantage. Get rid of them now!
I haven’t heard any news but this is all good news. The more that take the offer the closer we get to 2 billion.
@cw which tech? didn't hear anyone in streaming tech who took the opt-in
A ton of people in tech took it. Sad times
About half my team took it, going be a struggle for sure.
Yea!! It’s a mess! Entire departments wiped. The people that will suffer are the people who unfortunately don’t get laid off in a few weeks. No money to hire staff and a huge uphill battle.
Hopefully enough people took it that they lay off less people.
Makes sense if the teams have long timers. Doesn’t make any sense for short timers/make em fire you
Heard the same in my area - about 50% of Phase 1 people took the offer.
Yes, same
Phase 2 but my VP has Phase 1 reports. No one says they took a package yet streaming tech
@OP what type of department was it (marketing, finance, creative). Totally understandable that you don’t want to post specifics.
I can’t wait to leave myself, but I’m phase 2
Same on my team.