{"id":154935,"date":"2025-06-03T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154935\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:52:08","slug":"disney-is-laying-off-hundreds-of-workers-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154935\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disney is laying off several hundred workers, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> and Deadline. It’s the fourth and largest batch of cuts from the company in the last 10 months.<\/p>\n

Deadline reports<\/a> that the majority of the cuts are from the company’s corporate financial operations and Disney Entertainment’s various divisions, including film and television marketing, publicity, development, and casting.<\/p>\n

Related<\/b>: Here’s How Much 8 CEOs Made in 2024, From JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon to Disney’s Bob Iger<\/a><\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal notes that entire teams were not being eliminated, but the cuts span divisions globally.<\/p>\n

Disney, which is headquartered in Burbank, California, would not disclose<\/a> the exact number of layoffs this week, according to the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n

In March, the company cut around 200 jobs<\/a>, about 6% of the news workforce, mostly affecting the ABC News division in New York.<\/p>\n

According to a filing with the SEC, Disney had around 233,000 employees at the end of September 2024. The company has cut more than 8,000 roles<\/a> since 2023, per Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Disney reported better-than-expected Q2 earnings<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/b>Disney Announces Major Executive Changes, Including When CEO Bob Iger Is Leaving. Here’s What We Know.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney is laying off several hundred workers, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and Deadline. It’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3094],"tags":[51,3085,823,3134,14083,3840,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-154935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-business-news","10":"tag-disney","11":"tag-entrepreneurship","12":"tag-layoffs","13":"tag-news-and-trends","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114619766721772091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}