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Cela84 Apr 7, 2026 +450

How odd. I’m seeing so many new job listings on indeed from them…

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superexcited Apr 7, 2026 +353

This happens in tech too. You layoff and rehire those roles at a lower salary band.

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Disgruntled-Cacti Apr 7, 2026 +204

Yup. Or you could follow the oracle strategy and lay off 30,000 all at once while simultaneously putting up h1b visas for thousands of “impossible to fill positions”. Thankfully when you’re a presidential donor, laws don’t apply to you.

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GroverEyeveen Apr 7, 2026 +9

Cognizant does this too.

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shotbyadingus Apr 7, 2026 -45

Except that’s not what happened

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Wheeler-The-Dealer Apr 7, 2026 +19

You’re right, they made a massive debt service payment and then posted for the H1Bs.

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shotbyadingus Apr 7, 2026 -10

Are the thousands of H1Bs in the room with us now?

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Wheeler-The-Dealer Apr 7, 2026 +9

I like how you avoided the fact that there was a massive debt service payment.

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Saneless Apr 7, 2026 +38

Or even better, make the salary so low no one wants it, then cry you can't find any help without visas or off shoring

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longjumpingtote Apr 7, 2026 +19

> You layoff and rehire those roles at a lower salary band. The layoffs I've been around at tech companies and studios are usually to get rid of department X with strategy X3 and then fill up department Q with strategies Q1/Q7. For example, and one layoff, they were terminating people who worked in their true crime division (couldn't compete with Netflix) and at the same time hiring about as many people who had experience in foreign soap opera production.

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Glup_Maclunkey Apr 7, 2026 +16

Except in tech most of the jobs are fake.

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dat_hypocrite Apr 7, 2026 +17

Or worse, it’s a real job but they already have someone they want to hire but have to legally post the job and do fake interviews with candidates who never stood a chance. The more insanely specific the job description the higher chance there is that someone already filled that role.

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tqgibtngo Apr 7, 2026 +4

For the doubters out there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_job

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sordidcandles Apr 7, 2026 +7

My role was eliminated a few weeks ago and I heard they already have my replacement, created a new role for them, at a new salary. This is so common in tech and I hate it.

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el_smurfo Apr 7, 2026 +3

I tell recruiters from the big FAANG companies to f*** off ....why would I hire on at a company laying off 5 digit numbers of employees?

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Abba_Fiskbullar Apr 7, 2026 +1

I'm in the Bay and I know far too many people who've been bouncing around the FAANGs and EV companies without long term job security to ever work at one.

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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 -1

Yeah ok sure buddy, you're totally getting FAANG recruiters groveling at your feet...

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el_smurfo Apr 8, 2026 +2

I am a hardware guy and there aren't that many around anymore. I have gotten multiple inquiries from Amazon, META, Google, Tesla, Anduril just in the last few weeks.

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RedTheRobot Apr 7, 2026 +2

Ah the Circuit City strategy and those guys did so well after it so I’m sure Sony will be fine and you know not send a huge amount of talent to other companies and have those companies or company out perform them.

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MasterDeagle Apr 7, 2026 +1

This is illegal where I live, but I guess not USA?

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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +2

Nothing is illegal in USA anymore, especially at the corporate level. It's a wild west of law breakers at this point.

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BobBelcher2021 Apr 8, 2026 +1

It can also be that one department is laying off but another department is hiring. This can happen in large companies that are changing their product/service mix.

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sudoku7 Apr 7, 2026 +39

So, this happens a lot with corporations. The department believes they have a hiring budget, so they go to hire. Up top has decided to reduce head count, but to avoid a panic, they don't tell the departments that their budget will be reduced. That is, until the RIF goes out. It's very much a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing, and intentionally so.

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saurabh8448 Apr 7, 2026 +4

The people they are hiring and they are firing might have different skill set though.

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sudoku7 Apr 7, 2026 +3

That is another bit too. Absolutely. The need to hire may still exist (if not made more important) after the RIFs. And it could even be folks with the same skill set, just in different departments/divisions so as a company the right hand doesn't know what the left hand needs. Some corporations do try to find ways to port folks to other business needs in the RIF, but some don't. When they don't it's usually because the corporation acknowledges the now former employee is potentially justifiably upset with the company and seeking instead to limit the chance of negative outcome for the business (ie, the 'everything turns off during the meeting'). And just because I understand why businesses do it doesn't mean I like it. It just kinda freaking sucks.

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Trueogre Apr 7, 2026 +13

Because they're going to be newer contracts with fewer benefits.

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GrizzlyP33 Apr 7, 2026 +7

Typical - people who have been there a long time have higher salaries, benefits, more vacation days, etc. Now you can clean house, start salaries over, and replace 60% of the labor with AI tools without directly calling it out. But jobs that were done by teams of 10 will almost guaranteed to condense down to 2 or 3 while leaning on tech, for better or worse.

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_johnning Apr 7, 2026 +1

It’s like that one korean movie, No Other Choice

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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +1

If it can be done with 2 people using AI, rather than 10 who don't use AI, what reason would they have for NOT just having 2 people do it with AI?

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GrizzlyP33 Apr 8, 2026 +1

None. Which is why they did it. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Pale_Possibility5083 Apr 7, 2026 +5

Classic BS maneuver to appear as if they are doing well. They’ll even hold multi tier job interviews just to ghost you Becuase they’re not really hiring. F*** them.

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PringlesDuckFace Apr 7, 2026 +2

Least cynical take is they're restructuring. For example let's say I make 100 movies and 100 TV shows a year. Then I decide I want to make 80 movies and 120 TV shows next year. I'd lay off 20% of movie people but still be hiring 20% more TV people. I can both be laying off and hiring without contradicting my own goals. For corporations where people have transferable skills they'll often give employees a few months to find a new role in a division that's hiring. So maybe the movie camera operators are sufficiently able to do TV camera work, so they'd just move over rather than losing their job fully.

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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +1

These layoffs are often done with the express purpose of rehiring less experienced workers that can't demand the same salaries the laid-off experienced ones did.

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hikemalls Apr 7, 2026 +123

TV/Film industry is racing to catch up to the video game industry’s strategy of firing everyone and only making like 5 new things a year (at least at the top level/big budget products)

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Gastroid Apr 7, 2026 +23

At this point it's every industry doing layoffs and reducing production due to supply chain buckling and economic instability. It's just that so many industries can use AI as a convenient reason.

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RollTide16-18 Apr 7, 2026 +5

One of the biggest issues right now is that there’s a ton of literal slop being made for relatively c****. The larger, more established studios and production houses have more or less figured out how to push out at least good material. However, costs have skyrocketed and traditional film/television media keeps hemorrhaging viewers to streaming, YouTube and short-form content. So these guys at the bottom are pumping out a ton of shit designed for almost nobody, for a small amount of money. It floods the market, so the bigger brands *have* to make better shows/films. You can’t reasonably bring costs down at the big studios, if you don’t make something better than the small guys every time you’re screwed.

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SomewhereNo8378 Apr 7, 2026 +1

and both industries will soon be competing with small shops utilizing AI tools, churning out games and movies

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magicalgiant Apr 7, 2026 +9

They already do this with VFX

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A_Novelty-Account Apr 7, 2026 +76

> Over the coming months, business leaders will share more detail as plans and priorities take shape. Who wants to bet this plan will include some justification relating to AI?

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Mimogger Apr 7, 2026 +9

sounds like they didn't have a plan and just fired people

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Conscious-Quarter423 Apr 7, 2026 +102

textbook corporate greed

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hoguensteintoo Apr 7, 2026 -26

Sure one could say that. Or you could say they are just casting for The Great Depression 2: Electric Boogaloo!

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apocalyptic_tea Apr 7, 2026 +3

I have no idea why you got downvoted, this was funny and you’re absolutely correct that corporations and the current government have our economy in a nosedive to the ground. Another Depression is not as crazy as it used to sound.

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JordanDoesTV Apr 7, 2026 +3

I think it’s because it’s too real to be funny or crazy, and like hundreds of people lost their jobs.

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apocalyptic_tea Apr 7, 2026 +2

That’s absolutely fair, honestly it’s almost nice to see a comment section of people taking something seriously because it sometimes feels like nothing is off-limits anymore. It’s easy to become desensitized.

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x_lincoln_x Apr 8, 2026 +1

Take my upvote, unjustly downvoted listnookor!

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LostInLittleroot Apr 7, 2026 +61

>This means that some of our colleagues will be leaving the company Ah yes hundreds totally is equal to ***some***

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RepresentativeArtist Apr 7, 2026 +79

They have Spider-Man and Jumanji both coming out this year that together will likely net $2.5-$3 billion between them. F*** these greedy corporate hacks.

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flirtydodo Apr 7, 2026 +13

Their tenth yacht won't pay itself

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MarvelManiac45213 Apr 7, 2026 +9

Not to mention Legend of Zelda in May of 2027. Which based on the Mario Movies will more than likely be a billion dollar film regardless of quality.

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KumagawaUshio Apr 7, 2026 +4

It's live action so it's not doing anywhere near Mario numbers and Zelda has never been anywhere close to Mario's popularity. Optimistally it'll do numbers comparable to the Sonic films at best.

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TNWhaa Apr 7, 2026 +2

They’ve also got amazon paying to distribute the boys finale starting tomorrow, spider-noir in the summer and god of war next year for their tv division. They ain’t doing to bad when it comes to getting their IP’s out there

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KumagawaUshio Apr 7, 2026 +3

LOL you realise that theatrical gross is not what the studio sees they see 50% ish at best once the theatrical run is over. Not sure were you are getting those numbers either both together are looking at sub $2 billion global gross based on current estimates.

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Purona Apr 7, 2026 -2

i hope yall dont run your personal finances like this. i have some money coming in later this year, so i can keep a bunch of expenses going because im going to end up positive later on.

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RepresentativeArtist Apr 7, 2026

Here’s a boot for you to lick 🥾

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keving87 Apr 7, 2026

And they'll probably make at least one of those 4K discs releases steelbook-only so they'll charge $40-50 for it.

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legendary_sponge Apr 7, 2026 +13

It’s happening to every single sector, AI is going to destroy the world

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nashfrostedtips Apr 7, 2026 +16

Corporate greed is actively ruining the world for everyone and it just keeps coming and coming. F***.

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switch8000 Apr 7, 2026 +7

Horrible.

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Honeybadger78701 Apr 7, 2026 +3

Alamo Drafthouse employees past and present collectively give the one finger salute…

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Indie89 Apr 7, 2026 +3

Some exec with his MBA in sacking 10% of your workforce to get the short term stock bump https://youtu.be/bnYVH_Rrp00?si=vkyWhpAgkY7zULkp

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Conscious-Quarter423 Apr 7, 2026 +6

predictable

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Sober_Alcoholic_ Apr 7, 2026 +2

“F*** it, everyone else is doing it to save on overhead so why not us? We’ll just say “AI” and be done with it.”

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Gravijas Apr 7, 2026 +2

Does anyone even have a job left at this point? holy layoff Batman.

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funkymonk44 Apr 7, 2026 +3

I'm confused, I was told that we were adding jobs, not laying off massive amounts of individuals across several markets.

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Straight-Ad6926 Apr 7, 2026 +2

Cutting hundreds of jobs? That should definitely help the creative morale they’re always bragging about in the press releases.

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firedrakes Apr 7, 2026 +1

Sony finished up there whole re organization of shell corps .

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Mageborn23 Apr 7, 2026 +1

Don’t they just have a hit movie?

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Bob_the_peasant Apr 7, 2026 +1

So much for the Morbius trilogy

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KumagawaUshio Apr 7, 2026 +1

Lots of those working in unscripted and made for syndication shows are going from what I've heard as in the streaming age those two types of shows have little future.

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Alienhaslanded Apr 7, 2026 +1

Happens when you start doing more formulated trash that nobody wants to see.

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Chill323 Apr 7, 2026 +1

A friend of mine who works as a video engineer for them in their music dept. hadn’t heard of this until I forwarded this article. They hadn’t bothered to notify their own workers in other departments with an email first. Jeez.

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LifeSlight8007 Apr 8, 2026 +1

Need to save money for more PlayStation games

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l0udninja Apr 9, 2026 +1

Welcome home.

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Ok_Mathematician6075 Apr 9, 2026 +1

Sony? I mean we learn something every day, thought that what long gone.

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monchota Apr 7, 2026 +1

Yet listnook will spin this as some 4d chess move. I don't understand what the obsession here is protecting Sony ir always casting them in the best light.

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Virtual-Nose7777 Apr 7, 2026 +1

They never recovered after Ghostbusters 2016

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MichaelEll1s Apr 7, 2026 +1

Or the North Korea hack

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MetalPoo Apr 7, 2026 -1

capitalism

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[deleted] Apr 7, 2026 +6

People are down voting you because you don't understand how the world works. Actors make a lot of money, but A) they make less than executives; executives are leeches that bring nothing to the table and only take B) the amount of money and actor makes pales in comparison to how much they bring in on name recognition The working class are not the problem here, as always, it's executive greed that sucks money from the world.

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Competitive-Ad4249 Apr 7, 2026 -1

Then, pay the A list actors less so as to avoid laying off 100s' of Sony employees.So, actors aren't greedy for demanding multi-million $ salaries for a few months' work?

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[deleted] Apr 7, 2026 +2

No, they work for their money, and they're responsible for the movie making money. You're looking at a problem and focusing on moving 10% to 9% and missing the fuckers in suits pocketing 80%. It's just like pro sports. Is an athlete making 20 million a problem or is it the owner pocketing 500 million a year and asking tax payers to cover the arena the problem? Edit: also, if actors made less the companies would still lay everyone off for profits. You're talking about satisfying a beast that has an infinite appetite. It'll never be enough for these companies. If they lower actors pay they're just gonna pocket more and fire everyone they can still.

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Competitive-Ad4249 Apr 7, 2026 +1

Good point.

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LovelyOrangeJuice Apr 7, 2026 +4

Actor's salaries have nothing to do with this. It's execs pocketing the money for themselves and patting each other on the back for the green arrow goes up

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Chemical-Struggle-13 Apr 7, 2026 -7

This better not screw with the K Pop Demon Hunters sequel. I would also like for nobody to fall into poverty as a result of this decision but that is a far broader issue than Sony.

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DreamcatcherGirl_02 Apr 7, 2026 +2

Ummm, this is their Entertainment, Not the Animation Studios

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Chemical-Struggle-13 Apr 7, 2026

That makes more sense in retrospect

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