David Ellison’s Paramount is planning to lay off 1,000 workers on Wednesday

David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance is cutting 1,000 jobs, a person familiar with the plan said.

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Paramount Skydance is planning to lay off about 1,000 employees on Wednesday.
A person familiar with the impending cuts confirmed the plans to Business Insider.
David Ellison’s company is aiming to give investors about $2 billion in cost savings.

Paramount Skydance is about to implement its long-anticipated layoffs.

David Ellison’s company is set to eliminate about 1,000 positions on Wednesday, a person familiar with the plans confirmed to Business Insider. Bloomberg was first to report the timing and size of the planned cuts.

Paramount may be planning to shed even more salary later on, as Variety reported in August that the company’s new leadership could let go of 2,000 to 3,000 employees in total.

Ellison promised investors he could deliver $2 billion in cost savings when he merged Paramount with his production company, Skydance.

Paramount president Jeff Shell previously said that Paramount’s cuts would be “painful” but swift.

“We do not want to be a company that has layoffs every quarter,” Shell said at a press briefing in August, Deadline reported.

One Paramount software engineer told Business Insider that they hoped leadership would get layoffs “over with soon.”

“It’s awful and stressful, but honestly used to it,” a staffer in marketing strategy said of layoffs at the company.

Ellison, backed by his ultrawealthy father Larry Ellison, has made major moves since becoming Paramount’s CEO, after the $8 billion merger with his production company, Skydance, went through.

He and his team paid $7.7 billion to secure US UFC rights through 2030, lured the “Stranger Things” creators from Netflix, and hired Bari Weiss as the top editor at CBS News while paying $150 million for her contrarian news site, The Free Press.

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