Netflix confirms 1,000 job cuts despite growing revenue and profits. Paramount-WBD synergies could trigger another wave of media redundancies. AI is creeping into production workflows, blurring the line between assistance and job replacement. Netflix has confirmed plans to lay off around 1,000 employees, or roughly 6% of its workforce, in its biggest round of cuts since 2022. An email to staff names product, technology, legal and HR among the hardest-hit departments. So who, exactly, is being spared? As the world’s largest SVoD platform, Netflix’s axe-swinging has naturally grabbed headlines, though the company is far from alone in culling media workforces. From Disney’s corporate functions to NBCUniversal’s streaming engineers, media companies are continuing to dismantle parts of the workforces they built…