By Rhett Pardon

CHICAGO — By year's end, Playboy Enterprises Inc. is poised to cut its number of employees by half as business partners take over its existing operations and expand into new ventures.
That's the word from CEO Scott Flander, who said Playboy has reached two major joint-venture or licensing deal agreements that shift basic functions to contractors with greater scale and expertise.

Flanders, who made those comments to the Chicago Tribune on Monday, said that other deals — including the one that outsourced its noneditorial functions of its legendary magazine to American Media Inc. — already have taken place.

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