Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmBREAKING: Ouch. Paradigm held a conference call this morning where its head of HR told the agency that upwards of 180 employees — mostly operation and administrative, we’re told — had gone from temporarily laid off to permanently exited from the company.
There are no new people who were laid off, this just closes the books on a large number of people who were hanging onto hope that their jobs might be restored, after the agency made a shockingly large “temporary layoff” on March 20, shortly after it became clear that the pandemic was going to decimate agencies.
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