Paramount Staffers Expected Back at Office 5 Days a Week

As Paramount enters its next chapter, newly-minted CEO David Ellison is also putting his stamp on workplace culture.

The Skydance mogul sent a companywide memo to employees of Paramount Pictures, CBS, Paramount+, Showtime, Nickelodeon, MTV, BET and Comedy Central outlining a policy for full-time staffers in New York and Los Angeles to work in-office by January 2026, moving toward five days a week on site. Ellison wrote that Paramount will offer severance packages for those employees who don’t opt in.

Paramount’s exec leadership has said that by early November it will unveil a plan to exceed $2 billion-plus in synergies (i.e. finding redundancies between merging Skydance and Paramount, whether thats in duplicative areas like administration or product, etc). Ellison had stated that a major