Pixar cuts staff amid Disney-wide reductions during Toy Story 5 run
SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGCalifornia Employment Development Department· filed May 21, 2024View the filing ↗
What we know
Location: Emeryville, California, USA (Alameda County).
A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on May 21, 2024.
Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the CA state workforce agency.
Summary
Pixar, the animation studio within Disney, carried out a round of layoffs affecting roughly 200 employees as part of broader job cuts at Disney while Toy Story 5 was generating strong box-office revenue. The reductions were reported as part of companywide cost-cutting and restructuring measures at Disney, with Pixar among the divisions impacted. The article frames the cuts as occurring during the film's successful run and links them to studio-wide efficiency moves rather than creative failures at Pixar. Specific departments affected were not detailed in the report, nor was an exact effective date provided. The story situates Pixar's layoffs within a larger pattern of hundreds of layoffs at Disney.
Pixar disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the CA state workforce agency on May 21, 2024. The notice covers 200 employees in Park Avenue Emeryville, CA (Alameda County), with the layoff effective July 26, 2024.
That is roughly 16.7% of the 1,200 people Pixar employs.
LayoffTalk has tracked 5 layoff events at Pixar since July 2024, including 312 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 2 additional events known from news reporting.
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