Current and former employees at The Ellen DeGeneres Show and TMZ, both produced by WarnerMedia, have spoken up about their negative experiences in the workplace and now the company's executives have reassured staff they are taking measures to investigate and instigate change.
According to BuzzFeed, WarnerMedia chief executive Jason Kilar sent an email to staff which read: "I am both concerned and disappointed by public reports regarding patterns of unacceptable behavior that have been raised in recent weeks."
![In August, executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman and co-executive producer Jonathan Norman were fired from 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show'. Photo / Getty Images](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/EXCVJCTNE2WGXR6MDVUM56R5CI.jpg?auth=5776c06d9240b444f6764cd37d68a550df3194fb023d8bea2ee3b54fcb511843&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
He told employees the company would be communicating to all existing and prospective partners, including the "active and potential motion picture and television productions", that there would be a clear requirement to ensure "people be treated with dignity and our intention [is] to sever ties where patterns of behaviour are at odds with that requirement".
The executive confirmed a third party had been brought in to carry out an "objective, proactive review across our production business" in order to explore if there is "any pattern of behaviour that is at odds with our need to treat each other with dignity".