Fermi question · Business

About how many people did The Walt Disney Company employ at the end of fiscal 2025?

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≈ 231 thousand employees

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Combine a very large parks workforce with media, studio, and corporate staff.

  1. Theme parks and resortswell over 100,000 employees
  2. Media, studios and corporatetens of thousands more
  3. Estimate≈ 200k–250k employees

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