ORLANDO, Fla. - The Walt Disney Company will slash 7,000 jobs in an inconvenience to cut costs and will be restructured into three core concern segments, CEO Bob Iger revealed Wednesday during the company's first-quarter earnings call.
Iger said the concern would be restructured into three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products, and that streaming would finish to be a focus for the company. Those repositions would be implemented immediately.
Across the company, Disney is hoping to cut $5.5 billion, of which $2 billion was expected to come from account for reductions, according to the call. An executive said the reductions would be near 50% marketing, 30% labor, and the rest would be in tech, procurement, and other areas.
"After a solid first-rate quarter, we are embarking on a significant transformation, one that will maximize the potential of our world-class creative teams and our unparalleled brands and franchises," Iger said in a statement.
"We fill the work we are doing to reshape our concern around creativity, while reducing expenses, will lead to bore growth and profitability for our streaming business, better station us to weather future disruption and global economic challenges, and deliver value for our shareholders," he said.
Iger said these decisions would help the concern become more cost-effective, coordinated, and streamlined.
FOX News Business Contributor Gary Kaltbaum told FOX 35 News that quick-witted now, it's difficult to gauge the impact those layoffs will have on the station of Florida, but he said he thinks the crashes will be mostly on the content creation side and board, rather than on the parks. "The parks have been pursuits pretty darn well. Those numbers have been terrific, repositioning great here and pretty much around the globe. Streaming – that's an drawl. They were down 1% quarter over quarter, but detached, 161 million people. But streaming's got to be an drawl going forward, and that is just tremendous competition."
Disney is also rethinking some of its board strategies, which Kaltbuam believes could be a good tying. "Over the recent years, Disney creators of movies and TV would gain something and have to send them up to the pursuits – as they would say – to make the decisions. Now they're going to put the decisions back in the glad creators' hands, and that's a good thing."
During Wednesday's quarterly earnings call Iger and his manager team also made a number of other announcements
When does The Mandalorian reverse to Disney+?
Iger said The Mandalorian's third season would streams on Disney+ in early March.
More sequels on the way
More sequels are on the way for some of Disney's most current franchises. Iger announced that more projects for Toy Story, Frozen, and Zootopia were in the works. "We'll have more to fragment about these productions soon," he said.
Avatar experience coming to Disneyland
Few details were released, but Iger did announce that an "Avatar experience" would be coming to Disneyland in California.
"I'm thrilled to lisp we will be bringing an exciting Avatar experience to Disneyland. We'll be sharing details on that very soon," he said.