{"id":16372,"date":"2025-06-03T06:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/?p=16372"},"modified":"2025-06-03T06:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:22:59","slug":"disney-is-laying-off-hundreds-of-workers-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/disney-is-laying-off-hundreds-of-workers-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Disney is laying off several hundred workers, according to reports in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/walt-disney-co-to-lay-off-hundreds-c9d232f0?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAj3klcr3_VQqBQxRlxB7l4GmUzu5vxiG770svHliGiLpJLwhT0xzePKBB98vjg%3D&amp;gaa_ts=683dfcbc&amp;gaa_sig=Ndu7bR5ZD2dp4yV9rQmVgcHnqpWRUBl-ndcfIQp-vIB7tgID0OgDb_WTXHjBpW6hSwlEspdkqgQ3mHaYGwUupA%3D%3D\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\"><i>Wall Street Journal<\/i><\/a> and <i>Deadline<\/i>. It&#8217;s the fourth and largest batch of cuts from the company in the last 10 months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/disney-layoffs-tv-film-entertainment-1236413707\/\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">Deadline reports<\/a> that the majority of the cuts are from the company&#8217;s corporate financial operations and Disney Entertainment&#8217;s various divisions, including film and television marketing, publicity, development, and casting.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/how-much-8-top-ceos-got-paid-in-2024-jpmorgan-disney\/486184\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">Here&#8217;s How Much 8 CEOs Made in 2024, From JPMorgan&#8217;s Jamie Dimon to Disney&#8217;s Bob Iger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> notes that entire teams were not being eliminated, but the cuts span divisions globally.<\/p>\n<p>Disney, which is headquartered in Burbank, California, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2025-06-02\/disney-begins-new-round-of-layoffs\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">would not disclose<\/a> the exact number of layoffs this week, according to the <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/disney-is-laying-off-6-of-its-workforce-news-divisions\/487976\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">cut around 200 jobs<\/a>, about 6% of the news workforce, mostly affecting the ABC News division in New York.<\/p>\n<p>According to a filing with the SEC, Disney had around 233,000 employees at the end of September 2024. The company has cut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/disney-will-layoff-7000-employees-to-save-5-billion-in\/444635\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">more than 8,000 roles<\/a> since 2023, per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-03-05\/disney-cuts-6-of-abc-network-and-entertainment-tv-workforce?srnd=homepage-americas\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Disney reported <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/disney-espn-theme-parks-earnings-better-than-expected-1236388096\/\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">better-than-expected Q2 earnings<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/bob-iger-is-stepping-down-as-ceo-in-2026-disney-announces\/481634\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">Disney Announces Major Executive Changes, Including When CEO Bob Iger Is Leaving. Here&#8217;s What We Know.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/disney-is-laying-off-hundreds-of-workers-globally\/492619\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney is laying off several hundred workers, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and Deadline. It&#8217;s the fourth and largest batch of cuts from the company in the last 10 months. Deadline reports that the majority of the cuts are from the company&#8217;s corporate financial operations and Disney Entertainment&#8217;s various divisions, including film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.entrepreneur.com\/content\/3x2\/2000\/1748894141-Disney-Burbank-1845891248.jpg?format=pjeg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16374,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16372\/revisions\/16374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}