Skydance offers buyouts, orders return to office

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

> 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.

the downfall has begun ! enshittification at its finest !