Get the latest gossip
Hollywood’s Mental Health Crisis: How Job Losses Are Impacting Industry Executives As LinkedIn Is Labeled A “Pit Of Despair”
For Hollywood executives who have lost their jobs over the past year, the challenge has been not only finding work but also fighting hopelessness.
Editor’s note: The latest a series of Deadline reports looking at how the challenges facing the media & entertainment industry are impacting mental health. A highly experienced but unemployed suit, who like the other execs asked Deadline to not use his name for fear it would impact his job search, said the daily barrage of headlines about contraction in Hollywood don’t do his psyche any favors. With the state’s Employment Development Department reporting losses of more than 12,000 entertainment jobs from May 2023 to May 2024 — coupled with threats of even more layoffs at Warner Bros, Paramount and Disney — help-wanted signs are not exactly plastered all over the studios these days.
Or read this on Deadline