{"id":1204454,"date":"2022-09-14T17:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T17:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/netflix-downsizes-its-animation-department-impacting-30-employees\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T17:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T17:38:46","slug":"netflix-downsizes-its-animation-department-impacting-30-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/netflix-downsizes-its-animation-department-impacting-30-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix downsizes its animation department, impacting 30 employees \u2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet another round of layoffs at Netflix has unfortunately affected 30 Netflix Animation employees. Deadline first reported the news, and Netflix confirmed to  that the company is downsizing the department.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier this year, Netflix brought on Karen Toliver as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vice President of Animation Film Content and Traci Balthazor as Vice President of Animation Film Production. The company told us that, similar to other major animation film studios, the idea is to downsize so the animation film production arm is better organized under a central leader\u2013 Balthazor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the summer, the streaming service laid off over 450 employees in a major workforce reduction. In May,  learned that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">changes to animated projects could impact around 70 employees in the animation division.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has been bad news all around for Netflix, as the streaming giant lost 970,000 subscribers in July, adding to the loss of 200,000 subs in April.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another round of layoffs at Netflix has unfortunately affected 30 Netflix Animation employees. Deadline first reported the news, and Netflix confirmed to that the company is downsizing the department.\u00a0 Earlier this year, Netflix brought on Karen Toliver as Vice President of Animation Film Content and Traci Balthazor as Vice President of Animation Film Production. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}