shares of walt disney co dis fell 04 in premarket trading wednesday after bloomberg reported that the media and entertainment giant was planning to lay off thousands of employees next week citing people familiar with the matter bloomberg said the jobs being cut will come from across the company and include about 15 of the entertainment division’s workforce disney did not immediately respond to a request for comment the report comes after disney said in february that it would lay off 7000 employees as part of a plan to cut costs by 55 billion the company had about 220000 employees as of oct 1 2022 according to the company’s latest annual report the stock has run up 162 year to date through tuesday while the dow jones industrial average djia has gained 25