ESPN Boss Sends Tech-Savvy ‘Goodbye’ Memo After First Disney Bloodbath
KEY POINTS
- •Disney’s new CEO Josh D'Amaro announced its first layoffs starting Tuesday after merging marketing teams.
- •ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro sent a memo on Wednesday, confirming affected employees were notified beforehand.
- •Laid-off staff are offered severance based on tenure, and an ESPN spokesperson declined further comment.
On April 2026’s gloomy Tuesday, Disney’s new CEO Josh D'Amaro kicked off his reign with layoffs, carving ESPN’s workforce like a slow-motion turkey. ESPN’s chairman Jimmy Pitaro channeled his inner motivational speaker in a memo promising a future 'more agile and technologically enabled' — which apparently demands saying ‘bye’ to loyal staff who already got their pink slips. Pitaro was sympathetic enough to say goodbye twice, and urged leaving employees to contact 'People & Culture,' the corporate name for 'Sorry, not sorry.' ESPN even politely declined to comment, maintaining their motto: 'We cut jobs but never the awkward canned responses.' Sweet severance awaits, determined by levels and sacrifice years.
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(1 of 3)ESPN’s new motto: Forget sports, we’re training a tech army by outsourcing humans. Feelings are the first to go.
Disney’s new CEO started his tenure by chopping staff like carrots, proving the real sport is survival.
Hiring a ‘technologically enabled workforce’ is code for ‘robots don’t steal lunch or complain at meetings.'
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 4/15/2026 | Author: Kelsey Vlamis,James Faris
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