Employee Buyouts Begin at the Met, Astor Place Cube Returns

The first employees to accept buyouts are Sree Sreenivasan, Cynthia Round and Susan Sellers.

The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing.
The Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Employee buyouts begin at the Met, and first to go is social media guru Sree Sreenivasan. To help offset its $10 million deficit, the museum is looking to cut costs, and that includes voluntary buyouts, a hiring freeze and halting construction on a new modern and contemporary art wing. The first employees to accept buyouts are Sreenivasan, the Met’s first chief digital officer, Cynthia Round, senior vice president for marketing and external relations and Susan Sellers, head of design.

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Employee Buyouts Begin at the Met, Astor Place Cube Returns