{"id":518438,"date":"2026-11-04T15:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T15:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518438\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T15:50:31","slug":"disney-lays-off-159-workers-in-experiences-division-daily-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518438\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney lays off 159 workers in Experiences division \u2013 Daily Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walt Disney Co. plans to layoff\u00a0 151 workers across the entertainment giant\u2019s Experiences segment<\/a> based in Glendale by the end of December, with another eight job cuts coming by Feb. 28, 2027, the Burbank-based company said in a regulatory filing this week.<\/p>\n

The experiences segment<\/a> includes all of Disney\u2019s theme parks \u2014 not just the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim \u2014 its cruise line fleet, Aulani resort and spa in O\u2019ahu, and its Imagineering campus in Glendale involved in creative design at theme parks, resorts and attractions.<\/p>\n

Jim Bowden, Disney\u2019s head of employee relations, wrote in an Oct. 27 letter filed with the state\u2019s Employment Development Department that the layoffs are permanent, and affect employees who \u201ctake direction from its offices\u201d in Glendale.<\/p>\n

A Disney spokesperson was not immediately available to comment on how widespread those layoffs are across the region.<\/p>\n

The layoffs affect a range of workers, including landscape architects, project engineers, technical directors, ride development engineers, show set control engineers and designers, according to the EDD filing.<\/p>\n

The layoff filings were made as part of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act \u2014 commonly referred to as WARN, which are required when an employer lays off more than 50 employees.<\/p>\n

The layoffs come on the heels of other company layoffs and early retirement buyout packages<\/a> offered this past summer to certain executives.<\/p>\n

That offer came amid ongoing layoffs, with the elimination of 1,000 roles<\/a> announced in April, followed by a round of hundreds of job cuts in July. Disney Chief Executive Officer Josh D\u2019Amaro and Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston told investors in early August that more may be coming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In October 2025<\/a>, Disneyland in Anaheim laid off 100 salaried employees<\/a> as Orange County\u2019s largest employer recalibrated its business ahead of the busy Christmas holiday season.<\/p>\n

The company filed multiple layoff notices over the past year with the state\u2019s Employment Development Department.\u00a0In April<\/a>, Disney filed one notice regarding 53 layoffs at its Disney Entertainment Operations in Burbank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walt Disney Co. plans to layoff\u00a0 151 workers across the entertainment giant\u2019s Experiences segment based in Glendale by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,9596,387,7,3588,383,137,611],"class_list":["post-518438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-burbank","tag-business","tag-california","tag-disney","tag-economy","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-orange-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}