Disneyland Resort has laid off about 100 folks in Anaheim, as Walt Disney Co. turns into the most recent media and leisure firm to chop jobs.
The layoffs occurred Tuesday and got here from a number of groups, Disney confirmed.
“With our enterprise in a interval of regular, sustained operation, we’re recalibrating our group to make sure we proceed to ship distinctive experiences for our visitors, whereas positioning Disneyland Resort for the longer term,” a Disneyland spokesperson stated in a press release. “As a part of this, we’ve made the troublesome choice to eradicate a restricted variety of salaried positions.”
An individual near the corporate who was not licensed to remark attributed the cuts to a rise in hiring after the parks reopened as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic waned.
Disney’s theme parks are a serious financial engine for the Burbank media and leisure big.
Final yr, the corporate’s experiences division — which incorporates its theme parks, cruise line and Aulani resort and spa in Hawaii — introduced in almost 60% of Disney’s working revenue.
Earlier this month, the corporate introduced value hikes on most of its single-day, one-park tickets.
The Disneyland Resort layoffs come as leisure and tech firms have lately shed hundreds of jobs.
On Wednesday, Paramount laid off 1,000 staff in a primary spherical of cuts after the corporate’s takeover by tech scion David Ellison’s Skydance Media. Amazon, Meta, Constitution Corp. and NBC Information even have introduced cuts.
