Employer · WARN Act history · Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
Disney
35,000 workers across 2 WARN notices, primarily in CA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 35,000
- Workers cut
- 2
- WARN notices
- 1
- State
- 17,500
- Avg / notice
Disney has 2 recorded WARN filings affecting 35,000 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Disney has 2 recorded filings covering 35,000 workers across 1 state, primarily CA, the 3rd-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Disney drives the bulk of Arts, Entertainment & Recreation WARN layoffs — 70% of the 50,057 workers tracked across 46 Arts, Entertainment & Recreation employers, the #1 largest in the sector.
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Employer DISNEY · Disney 35,000 workers · 2 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-UNK · STAT-SINGLE · BOOK-SINGLE · TYPE-LAYOFF
- NOTC-LIGHT 2 filings
- WORK-TOP #3
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-UNK Runway n/a
- STAT-SINGLE CA
- BOOK-SINGLE 1 agency
- TYPE-LAYOFF 2 layoffs
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Disney WARN filings · notice runway
Top 2 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Burbank, CA · Layoff · Arts, Entertainment & Recreation 28,000 workers · filed Sep 29, 2020 · 0d runway
- Burbank, CA · Layoff · Arts, Entertainment & Recreation 7,000 workers · filed Apr 20, 2020 · 0d runway
Median forward runway across 2 dated filings: 0 days (2 under 60d · 0 at/above 60d · 2 same-day or retroactive).
Where Disney Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Disney is in the 15k+ bucket (#3 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Sep 2020.
WARN Notice History
2020
Burbank, CA · Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
Effective: Sep 29, 2020
28,000
workers
Filed Sep 29, 2020
Burbank, CA · Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
Effective: Apr 20, 2020
7,000
workers
Filed Apr 20, 2020
Questions about this Disney record
What is the largest Disney WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Burbank, CA on Sep 29, 2020, covering 28,000 workers in Arts, Entertainment & Recreation.
Where were Disney's WARN notices filed? ▼
The record contains 2 mass-layoff filings centered on Burbank, sourced from the public WARN archive. States represented in this record: CA.
Does Disney's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
All 2 filings fall in 2020, so the record describes a concentrated episode rather than a multi-year cadence.
How much advance notice appears in Disney's record? ▼
No trustworthy advance-notice runway can be derived from these rows because the source dates are equal, missing, or retroactive.
See also: CA WARN filings · Arts, Entertainment & Recreation industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Disney notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.