Thursday, April 23, 2026
New Disney Boss Cuts 1,000 Jobs Then Turns Around and Posts a Job Fair
disneytips.com: Walt Disney World is a place built on the idea that everything runs seamlessly, that every ride launches on cue, every light hits its mark, and every experience feels effortless to the people paying to enjoy it. What most guests never think about is the army of people behind the scenes making all of that happen, and right now, Disney needs more of them.
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This whole thing starting off from even the title just seems off and the more you read about the whole situation it just gets more confusing and confusing and it really feels like there's something happening behind the scenes that they're not talking about. Why else would you fire thousands of employees and then turn around and hire people on the spot? It sounds a little bit crazy to hire someone on the spot, especially with a huge company such as Disney. Nothing about this makes sense and It really feels like there's something behind the scenes that is going on and is the real reason why all those employees were fired. For a company that has been open for so long and is such a huge performance and theme park to keep running every single day It seems very strange and out of character for them to be so unorganized that they would fire people before even replacing them or having their replacements already hired.
I agree with Eliana- this is such a strange situation, and the title highlights how contradictory it truly is!
Unfortunately, I’ve seen this happen in the job market a lot. Mass layoffs are a great way to cut workers who have increased their pay from when they initially started. The organization is able to turn around and get groups of workers that can do the same job but be paid less since they just began working there.
It doesn’t seem like CEO Josh D’Amaro has amazing justification for the layoffs: a “more agile, technologically equipped” workforce doesn’t seem quantifiable.
The article also is leading with a bit of a clickbait title, as they explain later in their body that the “layoffs and hiring event are not really in conflict with each other.” Managerial positions are being cut and their workers laid off, while technical positions are hiring.
I also found it interesting that this article is geared towards those who want to apply! I can imagine there are groups frustrated at the layoff, and groups excited by the chance to apply.
This is crazy work from a public’s point of view, any normal person would look at it and go “That’s awful! Disney is bad!” I think there is a reason Disney doesn’t want to tell the public, perhaps there was internal team struggles that led to the removal of these people, and if they tried to fire them the normal way they would’ve costed the company a lot more money, and time, and paperwork, then just firing them for redundancy reasons and paying them severance. If they fired them the normal way, they would need a paper trail of everyone's wrongs, mostly through the way of written warnings and personal improvement plans, redundancy doesn’t require this, rather only requires you to sign an agreement for severance or you can try to get unemployment through the long process, so most people just sign. There has to be more reasons then we know behind this.
I have heard so many horror stories about people experiencing harsh conditions while working for Disney and other large entertainment companies. For these companies the priority is guest experience, with worker’s comfort following after. The disney legal team is also formidable with each person who works for the company basically signing away their right to do anything that may reflect in any way badly on the company. The strict rules that workers are forced to follow or be fired seem to be made to micro manage every worker during any situation possible. And now on top of this many workers have been laid off right before a big hiring event. It just seems like Disney is looking for some new blood to recruit while getting rid of others that have been there longer. I don’t think I have ever talked to anyone that has worked for Disney that doesn’t have anything negative to say about the company.
I feel like there is something missing from this. Why would a big company like Disney fire so many employees, especially a thousand, knowing it would go public eventually. Disney is pretty weird I will say, I’ve read some other articles about them that are concerning. However, I feel like any company would have a good reason behind cutting so many employees off just to end up rehiring. I have heard a lot of negative comments about working for Disney. When I read about them opening a new theme park in the Middle East during an active war, it really makes you question how little they really care about their workers. After reading this article, it just made this even more confusing. The reasoning behind the cuts and the new positions available don’t seem to line up. Either way, I’m sure the new hires will end up having negative experiences just like many others have when working for Disney.
This article immediately drew my eye because Disney is such a huge entertainment company. They have a huge number of eyes on them when they make moves as big as this. While I understand that the departments are not connected, I think it’s a huge misstep to schedule a job fair after confirming a large number of layoffs. People will immediately draw their own conclusions without looking further into it. Even I first made judgments before reading the full article. After finishing however, I still think there is something more happening within Disney that they are leaving out of the public eye. What that might be is beyond me but it highlights the importance of looking into the companies you work for and watching for what they tell everyone versus what actually is going on. I hope that there is a good reason behind their decisions and it is simply a poor publicity judgement rather than a sign of a larger labor issue within Disney.
Truly, after reading this article, I cannot believe the corporate decision-making process behind this. At this point it doesn’t even matter that the article states that those are "two different worlds" (creative/marketing), it still seems very confusing in that regard, to randomly list a job fair after firing 1000+ employees. It’s fairly apparent that Disney is essentially saying "We have no need for creative/marketing like we do for someone who can repair a gearbox at 3am." Don't get me wrong, I absolutely recognize there are thousands of people who have creative ability and may have been part of the corporate structure at some level. However, I do not necessarily feel that an individual who has just been terminated from their place of employment has to see a multitude of "WE'RE HIRING" posters within a week after their dismissal! The timing would have been great to wait at least a month to post that hiring information. While I understand business is business, I feel this was rather cold towards those individuals that were terminated.
As the article mentions, these are two wildly different roles that they're hiring and firing. At first I thought they were trying to fire entry level roles and replace them with fewer more experienced but I don't think that's the case at all. So these are likely two separate decision maybe all within their restructuring, but within different parts of the Company. I can imagine this job fair would be a great learning experience to be interviewed them offered a job right there. I wonder if they're simply looking for maintenance or if this position will also work on new ride development-- lets not forget the Disney World Villains Land currently in the works. I've said this before and I will keep saying it: Disney needs to start producing original stories again, not the one millionth live action remake of a better original movie.
It seems there is a pattern of Disney CEO’s not knowing what they’re doing, the same seems to be true for this new ceo as well. Those marketing employees have been doing their jobs for a long time(I know it’s common for ceos when they first get instated to want to change things and it’s even common for them to fire employees they think aren’t needed any more but a thousand employees is a lot for any company even Disney), they have experience in their field and even if a lot of Disney products haven’t been selling super well lately laying off a thousand people can’t be easier than just going with a different strategy as a company, I’m sure that this decision didn’t have enough thought went into and it was more something used to show investors that he’s doing something about Disney’s popularity issues.
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