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Disney Studio Restructuring Cuts Several Hundred Jobs, Pixar Hit Hardest

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EMPLOYEES AFFECTED
300
SHARE OF WORKFORCE
~0.2%
300 OF 173,250 EMPLOYEES

What we know

Location: Burbank, California, United States.

Department affected: Pixar animation studio and broader Disney studios staff.

Based on news reporting.

Summary

The Walt Disney Company cut several hundred staffers in a studio-wide restructuring, with Pixar bearing the brunt of the reductions. The article reports the company eliminated roughly 300 positions as part of studio layoffs affecting Pixar and other Disney studio operations. The moves are part of broader cost-cutting and restructuring within Disney’s studio businesses amid ongoing financial and strategic shifts. The layoffs affected creative and production staff at Pixar as well as staff across Disney’s studio divisions, though exact site-level locations were not specified.

The Walt Disney Company cut 300 jobs in CA affecting its Pixar animation studio and broader Disney studios staff team.

That is roughly 0.2% of the 173,250 people The Walt Disney Company employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 31 layoff events at The Walt Disney Company since September 2020, including 125 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 29 additional events known from news reporting.

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The Walt Disney CompanyDIS
Communication Services · 173,250 employees
31
EVENTS TRACKED
125
JOBS IN WARN FILINGS
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