{"id":4283,"date":"2025-11-19T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:00:58","slug":"more-layoffs-at-barbie-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/?p=4283","title":{"rendered":"More layoffs at Barbie HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbie\u2019s house just shrank. Toymaker Mattel is chopping 89 marketing and design jobs at its El Segundo headquarters, starting January 12, 2026, as it carves up its global brands team into a new \u201cbrand-centric\u201d structure that\u2019s supposed to save $200 million by 2026. This round is on top of the 120 shed last March. The toymaker says it\u2019s about strategy and efficiency; for the staff laid off, it\u2019s just another round of corporate make-believe where the brands live on and the people get boxed up and sent home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbie\u2019s house just shrank. Toymaker Mattel is chopping 89 marketing and design jobs at its El Segundo headquarters, starting January 12, 2026, as it carves up its global brands team into a new \u201cbrand-centric\u201d structure that\u2019s supposed to save $200 million by 2026. This round is on top of the 120 shed last March. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[154],"class_list":{"0":"post-4283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-layoffs","7":"tag-mattel"},"acf":{"sources":[{"author":"Pat Maio","publication":"OC Register","icon":4284,"url":"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/11\/18\/mattel-laying-off-89-workers-in-brand-restructuring\/","article_title":"Mattel laying off 89 workers in brand restructuring"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}