Replace 9/15/23, 6:49 a.m. EST: Following the Dana Warrior information, PWInsider is now reporting that Friday’s layoffs are full, with greater than 100 workers. Not one of the layoffs have been expertise releases, and expertise releases have been by no means scheduled for Friday. Breaking down the layoffs as an entire, PWInsider experiences that WWE’s Insights & Analytics workforce has been lowered from at the very least 20 workers to a few, with advertising and marketing, graphic design and stay occasions additionally affected. In an e-mail, WWE president Nick Khan reportedly knowledgeable workers in Stamford, Connecticut, {that a} employees assembly could be held at WWE’s new headquarters on Tuesday morning and confirmed the conclusion of the layoffs.
Extra layoffs have been introduced following WWE’s merger with the UFC after Endeavor took over the corporate, ensuing within the creation of TKO Group Holdings. Based on PWInsider, one of many shock firings concerned Dana Warrior, spouse of the late WWE Corridor of Famer Final Warrior. She labored within the artistic sector from 2019 to 2022, and most just lately labored with the corporate’s neighborhood outreach division.
PWInsider reported Friday’s layoffs included WWE digital marketing campaign supervisor Alexa Gotthardt, who introduced her departure on LinkedIn, and several other members of the corporate’s advertising and marketing division, with model director Kimberly Kirkegard and affiliate marketing online supervisor Saverio Brighina gone. The next-ranking official — Andy Levine, WWE’s vp of worldwide and platform technique — was additionally let go. Levine has labored for the corporate since 2018 and has worn a number of hats inside WWE, together with overseeing worldwide social and digital technique and dealing alongside different departments reminiscent of advertising and marketing, programming, content material operations, enterprise planning and extra. Different layoffs on Friday included WWE Govt Vice President of Growth and Digital Jamie Horowitz, Govt Vice President and Chief Advertising and marketing Officer Catherine Newman and Director of Enterprise Grasp Knowledge & Governance Amanda Bloom.