Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman has just come off a wonderful “work” trip to Cannes and has had to put up with walking around the deck of the company yacht in his socks for a week.
Now he’s prepared to sock it to another category of employee – the one that thought they had the most job security.
Market managers.
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- The brutal way Clear Channel will now target their “capos”, appointed managers who blindly carried out execution orders. Now they are the targets.
- Will the coming managerial purge be counted toward the four per market mandate to achieve 624 more layoffs this summer? We do the math.
- Real time examples of firings – who, where and how these new firings are being conducted as a warning of what’s to come.
- Red ink and piles of debt have forced Clear Channel to think more aggressively about layoffs. Here’s their scary new plan.
- What we’re all wondering! Pittman has board approval to layoff four employees from each market – when he is going to use it.
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