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Skydance wonders if employees would be so kind as to lay themselves off with new buyout program (www.avclub.com)

submitted 5 days ago by misk@piefed.social to c/movies@piefed.social

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 45 points 5 days ago

David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz sent a memo to the newly enlarged staff, informing them they will need to start coming into the office more regularly or stay home forever.

How dare they not offer 100% of their life towards company profit????

[David] Ellison, with help from his father [Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO] and sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and the UAE, bought the studio for $110 billion and took on $80 billion in debt.

Boy, I sure hope daddy doesn't get fucked over in the AI datacenters contracts, it'd be soooo baaaaad for Oracle and Skydance!

[-] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 12 points 5 days ago

I know it's impractical, but the government should have WFH mandates. If your job could reasonably be done from home and the company does not accommodate or allow for that there should be labor laws in place you can challenge them on.

It's better for the environment, for infrastructure, for the employees, and for the company. Less demand for gas also decreases the price and that will have effects on all sectors. In addition, it will decrease reliance on external oil sources that contribute to sovereign wealth funds that then further ruin our country via things like this.

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 8 points 4 days ago

It would also make corporate office real estate worth significantly leas, and corporate office real estate is pretty much a backbone of the entire economy, especially wrt banks investments. Which is why, despite many positive reasons to do it, it will never happen. At least until such time as banks can migrate away from those investments