Paramount Global Lays Off 800 Employees Despite Record-Breaking Super Bowl Viewership

The layoffs were reportedly made to ’return the company to earnings growth.’
Paramount Global Lays Off 800 Employees Despite Record-Breaking Super Bowl Viewership
The Paramount Pictures logo in front of Paramount Studios in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2024. Mario Tama/Getty Images
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Paramount Global—the parent company to major broadcasting networks like CBS, Nickelodeon, MTV, and Showtime, among others—reportedly announced it was laying off 800 employees in an internal memo sent out on Feb. 13.

The layoffs represent about 3 percent of the media conglomerate’s workforce, encompassing roughly 24,500 full-time and part-time employees at the close of 2022, per CNBC.