Paramount, which recently pink slipped 1,000 staffers, said today approximately 600 employees in the LA and New York offices, at the VP level and below, chose to take a severance package as the company instituted a five-day-a-week return to office mandate starting in January. In a letter to shareholders after its first quarter as a merged company, it said expects another 1,600 staff reductions after unloading Televisión Federal, or Telefe, in Argentina, and Chilevision in Chile, which the company expects t ...