The total workforce reduction, including vacant jobs that won't be filled, reaches 125 positions (26 percent).
Layoffs at other divisions were also expected Tuesday, though sources stress that Dungey’s studio was the most severely impacted. Additional rounds of layoffs impacting other divisions at WBD are expected in the coming weeks and months; the Warner Bros. film group will likely come last to allow its new exec regime time to acclimate.
“Some of our treasured colleagues will be leaving the company because of restructuring and realignment within our group. This was strictly a business decision, made as thoughtfully and compassionately as possible by studio leadership,” said Warner Bros. TV Group chairman Dungey, who took over the studio from Peter Roth at the start of 2021, in a memo to staff.
The layoffs are spread evenly between the unscripted, animation and scripted divisions as Dungey held a series of meetings with unscripted boss
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