Key Points
- Disney is laying off several hundred employees across multiple departments, with the latest cuts concentrated primarily in human resources and IT.
- The reductions affect corporate operations and individual Disney divisions.
- Disney signaled additional cost reductions in August, when CEO Josh D’Amaro and Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston said the company was evaluating labor and other selling, general and administrative expenses.
The Walt Disney Company s eliminating several hundred positions across the company, marking its third significant round of layoffs this year as the entertainment giant continues efforts to reduce costs.
The latest cuts are concentrated primarily within Disney’s human resources and information technology departments, affecting employees at the corporate level and across several divisions. The layoffs come nearly two months after Disney executives signaled that additional cost reductions were under consideration.
“We remain highly focused on reducing costs across the enterprise to create incremental capacity to invest for growth and are evaluating a variety of levers, including reductions in labor and SG&A,” CEO Josh D’Amaro and Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston told shareholders in August.
Disney said at the time that it was still working through the cost-reduction effort and would provide additional updates later.
The company eliminated around 1,000 positions in April, with many of those cuts connected to the formation of a consolidated enterprise marketing organization led by Disney’s Chief Marketing and Brand Officer Asad Ayaz.
Another round followed in July, when Disney eliminated several hundred positions across corporate functions and businesses including Pixar, ESPN, Disney Entertainment Television and its film studios. The majority of studio-related cuts affected Pixar, while National Geographic accounted for most of the reductions within Disney’s television group.
Disney continued its cost-cutting efforts in August by offering voluntary early-retirement packages to some longtime executives. The latest reductions represent the third major round of layoffs since D’Amaro became Disney’s CEO earlier this year.
Disney reported approximately 231,000 full- and part-time employees at the end of its 2025 fiscal year.
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