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Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
Business
Gabrielle Russon

18,000 Walt Disney World employees are losing their jobs as part of mass layoffs disclosed last month

ORLANDO — Last month, the Walt Disney Co. revealed it was laying off 28,000 employees across its U.S. theme parks division, but the company wouldn't break down exactly where the cuts were coming: Disneyland or Disney World?

New federally required government filings give more insight: Orlando's numbers are much higher than California, where Disneyland remains closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Nearly 18,000 people are getting laid off in Florida, according to the report, or nearly a quarter of the resort's Orlando workforce of 77,000 a year ago.

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