Paramount Wants Workers Back In Office 5 Days A Week

Paramount Skydance wants workers to kick off 2026 in the office every day, and it is giving workers less than two weeks to decide if they are up for it.

Paramount wants workers to sign on to the new five-day in-office plan by Sept. 15 or take a severance payment. Workers in Los Angeles and New York City will be the first required to return, but they won`t have to actually come back until January, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Skydance Media and Paramount Global completed an $8B merger on Aug. 7, creating Paramount Skydance Corp.

Workers are presently operating under a two-day in-office requirement. CBS News, MTV, Comedy Central, BET and Nickelodeon are all under the umbrella of Paramount Skydance...   ...more

RSK: This might just be a ruse to fire or let go workers who do not comply. Paramount wanted to trim costs and employees in an earlier statement.