It's been confirmed that layoffs are coming the week of Sept. 28. Has anyone heard anything about which teams will be impacted?
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@a5 when he said the organization will be much smaller, I don’t think he was referring to any single department..
From Micechat, today (8/28)
"More Disney Layoffs Are Coming
Remember when we said layoffs at The Walt Disney Company were far from over? The latest department told to brace for cuts is Legal & Global Affairs.
On September 18, Chief Legal & Global Affairs Officer Horacio Gutierrez sent a memo to his department about a “transformation process” that will require some hard choices. The group has fewer than 1,000 employees worldwide, and Gutierrez told them it will end up much smaller, with some of them personally affected. His plan includes outsourcing, self-service models, and automating certain workflows with the latest technology.
The memo doesn’t use the word AI specifically. A week after it went out, though, Disney posted a job listing for a director of AI enablement for its legal team, so it isn’t hard to connect the dots.
Disney job listings for AI roles
The timing didn’t do the company any favors. The memo went out the same day Disney named former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first-ever Chief Technology Officer. It also arrived as the deadline approached for eligible longtime executives to accept Disney’s voluntary early retirement offer, which was always expected to be followed by involuntary layoffs.
According to Deadline, a separate and broader round of layoffs could start as soon as this week, and the legal department cuts aren’t part of it. Disney hasn’t commented on the timing or size of either one."
@a4 d+ / hulu / espn is all disney employees
@a3 Ugh what does that even mean?? There are so many corporate functions that fall under that umbrella. SIGH.
Wasn't tech outsourced a long time ago?
Seen rumors of tech, HR, and “other operations functions” so potentially anything under the sun basically.