Disney Eliminates Roughly 300 Roles Across Tech and HR in Ongoing Restructuring

Disney is cutting around 300 employees in its latest round of layoffs under Chief Executive Officer Josh D'Amaro, according to a report by CNBC Business (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/disney-layoffs-josh-damaro.html) citing a person familiar with the matter.

The majority of the job cuts affect positions in human resources and technology departments. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the personnel changes publicly. Deadline first reported the newest round of reductions.

The reductions mark the latest contraction since D'Amaro became CEO earlier this year. In April, Disney planned to eliminate up to 1,000 roles during a consolidation of its enterprise marketing unit. In July, the company trimmed several hundred additional positions across corporate functions, ESPN, Disney Entertainment Television, and its film studios, with the bulk of those cuts landing in Pixar and National Geographic.

Disney signaled impending workforce cuts in its August earnings report, noting that management was evaluating operational expenses and offering early-retirement buyout packages to longtime executives.

"We remain highly focused on reducing costs across the enterprise to create incremental capacity to invest for growth and are evaluating a variety of levers, including reductions in labor and SG&A," Disney said in the August earnings report, adding that it was "mid-stream in this work."