{"id":865171,"date":"2026-09-29T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865171\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T22:02:11","slug":"disney-cuts-hundreds-more-jobs-in-new-round-of-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865171\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Cuts Hundreds More Jobs in New Round of Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFor months, employees at The Walt Disney<\/a> Co. have been on edge. The entertainment giant has cut hundreds of jobs this year as it continues streamlining corporate operations. More have been expected.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Tuesday, the ax fell. A few hundred employees, mostly in human resources and tech, were laid off, a person familiar with the situation confirms to The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cuts are the fourth round of layoffs this year. A month into the job, CEO Josh D\u2019Amaro in April eliminated around 1,000 jobs, mostly in the company\u2019s unified marketing organization, studios and TV business, ESPN, and product and technology. That was followed in July with reductions to some corporate functions, Disney Entertainment Television and film studios, with Pixar and Nat Geo seeing the most cuts.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe moves are unfolding against D\u2019Amaro\u2019s broader effort to make Disney a leaner operation while increasing investment in areas the company considers strategic. In an August shareholder letter, D\u2019Amaro and CFO Hugh Johnston said Disney was \u201cmid-stream\u201d in its cost-reduction efforts and indicated that further updates would come.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re highly focused on operating with speed and agility and improving productivity and efficiency across the company so we can invest in accelerating growth,\u201d the company stated in the letter, which noted \u201cmeaningful reductions to cost, including labor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company\u2019s push to automate corporate work has added another dimension to the restructuring. On Sept. 18, Horacio Gutierrez, Disney\u2019s chief legal and global affairs officer, told employees <\/a>that the company is undergoing a \u201ctransformation process\u201d that will require \u201chard choices\u201d as part of a corporate-wide workforce redesign in the adoption of artificial intelligence and other technologies. While the memo didn\u2019t explicitly mention AI, Disney is increasingly treating the technology as a restructuring tool in a way that will change how corporate functions are staffed and organized.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe legal and global affairs department \u201cwill be a much smaller organization than it is today, and some of you will personally be affected by decisions we make in this process,\u201d Gutierrez wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the round of cuts in July, some notable on-air talent at ESPN, including longtime SportsCenter anchor and Baseball Tonight host Karl Ravech, who has been with the channel since 1993, and Ryan Clark, a former NFL player who has been an analyst for the channel\u2019s football coverage for over a decade, were laid off. Most of the reductions were to behind-the-scenes staff, connected to its acquisition of the NFL Network earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs of the end of fiscal 2025, Disney employed roughly 231,000 people worldwide, including 172,000 in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For months, employees at The Walt Disney Co. have been on edge. The entertainment giant has cut hundreds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,3716],"class_list":["post-865171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-disney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}