Disney balances the ax again, fires several hundred employees worldwide in several teams.
The layoffs take place on Monday, affecting teams, especially those that manage marketing for cinema and television, advertising, casting and development as well as business financial operations, tell sources Variety. Disney positions cuts as improving its ability to operate more effectively. No team is eliminated with the job cuts.
The exact number of Disney staff who lose their jobs could not be determined.
Cups come only a few months after Disney dismissed nearly 200 employees of its television operations and new ABCs in March, after the company dropped 75 in ABC News and local stations in October 2024. Last September, the company dropped around 300 employees in several business departments, including HR, legal and finance in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States
And in July 2024, Disney slipped around 140 employees in the television division, mainly affecting the national television stations Geographic, Freeform and locally belonging.
The layoffs in the past year seem to be more surgical than the main travel reduction trips that the company made in 2023 shortly after the return of Disney chief, Bob Iger. Two years ago, the mouse house dismissal cycles finally reduced more than 8,000 jobs (after initially targeted a reduction of 7,000).
As of September 28, 2024, Disney said it had around 233,000 employees, including around 171,000 employees in the United States who raised compared to 225,000 workforce a year earlier.
The latest Disney layoffs were reported for the first time on the deadline.
