Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

Once again proving that this permanent A++ list celebrity cares only about herself and what is good for her, she announced a new campaign with a company that pays her many tens of millions of dollars. This was of course two days after the company fired thousands of employees over Zoom.

Did the celebrity mention the workers?

Nope.

The only time she cares about anyone is if there are ratings to be had.

Oprah Winfrey

WW – Weight Watchers

Mass Firing on Zoom Is Latest Sign of Weight Watchers Unrest

On the afternoon of May 14, Joanne Patten sat down at her computer in her home in Houston and logged in to a Zoom call with her employer, WW International, the company formerly known as Weight Watchers.

She listened as her boss, reading from a script, said she and the other employees on the Zoom call were being fired, effective when the three-minute session ended. It was one of numerous Zoom calls that occurred simultaneously across the country, resulting in the firing of an undisclosed number of WW employees.

“I was like, what just happened?” said Ms. Patten, 59, who was a part-time employee for nearly 11 years. “I put a call into my territory manager and said: ‘What was that? Are you kidding me? That’s how you’re going to fire me after all of these years?’”

For employees of WW, the mass terminations were especially painful because in recent years the company, under its chief executive, Mindy Grossman, and its high-profile investor and board member Oprah Winfrey, has moved from focusing on weight loss to a more full-on embrace of the broader wellness movement. In 2018, the company changed its five-decade-old moniker from Weight Watchers to WW and introduced the slogan “Wellness That Works.” – Source

WW, formerly Weight Watchers, announces plans to start reopening studios ahead of Oprah event

WW International, the company formerly known as Weight Watchers, on Friday announced its plans to start reopening its studios in a phased rollout months after they temporarily closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The announcement comes after an undisclosed number of WW employees learned Thursday that they were losing their jobs and ahead of a four-week virtual event the company is holding with brand ambassador Oprah Winfrey starting Saturday.

“As the COVID-19 crisis has forced the closure of our physical studios around the world, we have had to make some difficult decisions that have directly impacted the lives of some of our valued team members,” WW said in a statement to USA TODAY Friday. “With the accelerated growth of our digital offerings in both our WW app and the launch of Virtual Workshops, we are taking this time to look at our real estate footprint as we begin to safely and cautiously re-open our WW Studios.”

WW closed its 3,000 physical locations in the U.S. in mid-March and quickly took its 30,000 weekly workshops virtual using Zoom.

According to an anonymous post on TheLayoff.com, thousands were laid off Thursday. WW officials did not comment on the number of layoffs. – Source


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