Skydance issues 5-day RTO mandate, announces employee buyout program

Skydance, the megastudio formed via the recent merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), is ordering workers back to the office full time and offering voluntary buyouts to certain employees. Paramount-Skydance already had a five-day in-office workweek, but WBD still required only three days. “We believe in-person collaboration is vital to our culture and to the success of our business,” wrote chairman and CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz in a memo to staff on Monday. “Es...