{
  "id": 16652828,
  "title": "Here's the buyout package Skydance is offering employees who don't want to work in person 5 days a week",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/heres-the-buyout-package-skydance-is-offering-employees-who-dont-want",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-26T19:53:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/skydance-buyout-offer-details-rto-5-days-paramount-warner-bros-2026-10"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Skydance has offered employees who do not wish to return to the office five days a week a standard buyout package. The company, formed by the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, announced on Monday that all staff will need to work in the office full-time. Employees who decline to return to the office five days a week can choose to receive a buyout package of two weeks' severance for every year they have worked at Paramount or WBD. Most eligible employees are expected to receive the offer, although there may be exceptions regarding timing or the amount received. To accept the buyout, employees must notify Skydance by 11 p.m. ET on November 8. The company emphasizes that this is a one-time offer with no additional buyout programs planned.",
  "summary": "Skydance told employees to return to the office five days per week or take a buyout offer. Here's how much staffers who opt in will get.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Business",
        "title": "Skydance employees brace for expected restructure as megamerger dust settles",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/skydance-employees-brace-for-expected-restructure-as-megamerger-dust",
        "published": "2026-10-24T12:00:32.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}