---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001747079-23-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BALY"
cik: "0001747079"
company_name: "Bally's Corp"
filed_at: "2023-01-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T14:07:36.387206+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bally's announces Interactive workforce cut of up to 15%; expects $10-15M severance in Q1 2023

## Summary
- Interactive segment workforce reduction of up to 15% to cut operating costs.
- Estimated cash severance costs of $10M to $15M expected in Q1 2023.
- CEO Lee Fenton cites over-hiring during pandemic and macro uncertainties as reasons.
- Restructuring aims to achieve profitable operations in North American Interactive segment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001747079-23-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BALY
- cik: 0001747079
- company_name: Bally's Corp
- filed_at: 2023-01-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.05, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1747079/000174707923000012/0001747079-23-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1747079/000174707923000012/baly-20230118.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001747079-23-000012
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001747079-23-000012.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001747079-23-000012.txt

## Key facts
- Restructurings & Charges
  Bally's Corp announced a restructuring with charges of between approximately $10 million to $15 million affecting Interactive business / North American Interactive segment (reduction of the Company’s current Interactive workforce by up to 15 percent).
  - Type: restructuring
  - Charge: between approximately $10 million to $15 million
  - Affected area: Interactive business / North American Interactive segment
  - Headcount: reduction of the Company’s current Interactive workforce by up to 15 percent
  source text: subject to local law and consultation requirements in certain countries, as well as the Company’s business needs. The Company estimates that it will incur between approximately $10 million to $15 million in cash severance costs in connection with the Plan, which the Company expects to incur in the first quarter of 2023. The estimates of the charges and expenditures
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1747079/000174707923000012/0001747079-23-000012-index.htm

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