Disney is planning to lay off as many as 1,000 employees over the next few months, in what would be the company’s first cuts since Josh D’Amaro was named chief executive. The cuts are expected to land across parts of the business as Disney continues to reshape its operations after a series of earlier reductions.
The new round of disney layoffs would come from a company with a global work force of a bit more than 230,000 at the end of its most recent fiscal year, most of it part-time theme park workers. The first reported the news. Disney declined to comment when contacted by Deadline.
In January, Disney promoted Asad Ayaz to chief marketing and brand officer and announced a plan to consolidate marketing across its film, television and streaming operations, with the goal of eliminating duplication. Many of the cuts in the latest round are tied to that effort, according to the facts provided.
The move follows a long stretch of belt-tightening. From 2023 to 2025, multiple rounds of layoffs eliminated some 8,000 workers and produced $7.5 billion in cost savings. The most recent cuts came this past June, when several hundred employees around the world were laid off, including workers in Disney Entertainment’s film and television marketing, television publicity, casting and development units as well as in corporate financial operations. That June round was the fourth and largest in 10 months to hit various Disney television operations.
D’Amaro was officially named chief executive on February 3 and took over on March 18 at Disney’s annual shareholder meeting, ending Bob Iger’s latest run after 52 years and two stints as CEO. For Disney, the question now is not whether the company has room to cut again — it clearly does — but how much more of the organization can be trimmed before the savings start to collide with the parts of the business that still need to grow.
