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ESPN to lay off 300 employees, while also not filling 200 open positions
Posted on 11/5/20 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 11/5/20 at 2:45 pm
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ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro announced to staffers that roughly 300 people will be laid off as parent company Disney shifts to more direct-to-consumer streaming. The memo follows internal discussions about layoffs related to Covid-19.
ESPN will also part ways with some on-air talent once contracts expire.
“As you know, we value transparency in our internal dialogue, and that means in both good and challenging times,” Pitaro wrote in the memo. “After much consideration, I have some difficult organizational decisions to share. We will be reducing our workforce, impacting approximately 300 valued team members, in addition to 200 open positions.
The network employs roughly 6,000 people worldwide.
This post was edited on 11/5/20 at 3:46 pm
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Posted on 11/5/20 at 2:46 pm to paperwasp
Unfortunately it isn't going to be the idiots that are causing people to tune away. They are going to lay off the low people on the totem pole that are just trying to make a living.
This post was edited on 11/5/20 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 11/5/20 at 2:46 pm to paperwasp
Lets all say it together
Go Woke, Go _________
Go Woke, Go _________
Posted on 11/5/20 at 2:46 pm to Pintail
Get woke go broke
Posted on 11/5/20 at 2:47 pm to paperwasp
You hate to see it.
Posted on 11/5/20 at 2:48 pm to paperwasp
How am I going to get my news of how LeBron is the new Frederick Douglass?
Posted on 11/5/20 at 2:51 pm to paperwasp
Aww, how sad 
Posted on 11/5/20 at 2:56 pm to paperwasp
WOW, that was quick, the election isn't even officially over yet. 
Posted on 11/5/20 at 2:56 pm to paperwasp
Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch
Posted on 11/5/20 at 3:02 pm to paperwasp
It's a shell of what it was in its glory days.
Posted on 11/5/20 at 3:02 pm to paperwasp
I hope they remember to include diversity in their business plan by laying off all white people first, especially herbstreet
Posted on 11/5/20 at 3:09 pm to paperwasp
The woke thing is true, but it is also true that ESPN has refused to evolve with streaming. One has to get a Faux Cable app like Sling in order to view games/programming. And ESPN+ is garbage, at least as far as live events go.
My solution? I get Sling for 4 months (5 if Tigers are in playoffs) and get rid of it after college football season is over. Way dem tigers looking this season, I'll be cancelling it in about 5 weeks.
One would think that along with their millenial woke attitude, ESPN might realize that cable is dying with the boomers.
My solution? I get Sling for 4 months (5 if Tigers are in playoffs) and get rid of it after college football season is over. Way dem tigers looking this season, I'll be cancelling it in about 5 weeks.
One would think that along with their millenial woke attitude, ESPN might realize that cable is dying with the boomers.
This post was edited on 11/5/20 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 11/5/20 at 3:20 pm to paperwasp
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200 open positions
Gotta love corporate america.
Get fired for being loyal, & good at your job, earning raises through the years.
They are gonna hire 200 people who make half the money to do 300 people's jobs, who will then leave once the economy allows them to leverage all the experience they gained, and their open positions will be filled by experienced, expensive people who will be seen as a burden later.
Classic Corporate cannibalization of the workforce. Wanna know how wages stay the same yet companies make more and more?
This is it.
This post was edited on 11/5/20 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 11/5/20 at 3:21 pm to paperwasp
Used to be a great network.
Posted on 11/5/20 at 3:22 pm to ShoeBang
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They are gonna hire 200 people who make half the money to do 300 people's job
Reading comprehension must not be one of your strengths
Posted on 11/5/20 at 3:27 pm to ShoeBang
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hey are gonna hire 200 people who make half the money to do 300 people's jobs
I could be misreading it, but I interpreted it as them doing away with those open positions along with the 300 active employees.
When there is a restructuring the open positions are often the ones that go first.
But you are correct that the remaining employees will have to pick up the duties of the released staff, usually for little or no more $.
Posted on 11/5/20 at 3:28 pm to paperwasp
Can they rehire Jemele Hill so they can fire her again??
Posted on 11/5/20 at 3:29 pm to ShoeBang
The sentence is ambiguous. They are laying off 300 in addition to closing 200 open positions as I read it.
Posted on 11/5/20 at 3:37 pm to paperwasp
No surprise there. They stopped reporting on every sport except the Oppression Olympics.
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