Disney started its second, bigger wave of layoffs Monday, bringing whole job cuts in latest weeks to 4,000 when the most recent spherical is accomplished.

Earlier this 12 months, Disney mentioned it could slash 7,000 jobs from its workforce as half of a bigger reorganization of the corporate that can see it lower prices by $5.5 billion. The announcement was made throughout Bob Iger’s first earnings name since returning as CEO.

Disney officers mentioned Monday that they do not take the departure of so many colleagues calmly. Eliminating 7,000 jobs from its workforce equates to about 3% of the roughly 220,000 folks Disney employed as of Oct. 1, in response to a securities submitting, with roughly 166,000 within the U.S. and about 54,000 internationally.

Disney notified staff of a primary wave of layoffs on March 27, which noticed cuts in its metaverse methods unit and a part of its Beijing workplace.

The second spherical, which will probably be accomplished Thursday, will have an effect on numerous divisions throughout the corporate, together with Disney Leisure and ESPN, in addition to Disney Parks, Experiences and Merchandise. The roles affected will span throughout the nation from Burbank, California, to New York and Connecticut. CNBC reported final week layoffs would quickly start at ESPN.

The corporate mentioned it expects to start out its third wave of layoffs earlier than the start of the summer season so as to attain the 7,000 goal. Disney has beforehand mentioned it would not count on layoffs to have an effect on its hourly employees at its parks and resorts.  

Iger mentioned earlier this 12 months Disney’s price reductions would come with slicing $3 billion in content material bills, excluding sports activities, and the remaining $2.5 billion from noncontent cuts. At that time, Disney executives mentioned about $1 billion in cost-cutting had already been underway since final quarter.

The fee-cutting measures at Disney come as media firms have been pulling again on content material spending — and spending basically — as they give the impression of being to make their streaming companies worthwhile. The reorganization was additionally put into place when Disney was nonetheless within the midst of a proxy combat with Nelson Peltz and his agency Trian Administration. Quickly after the announcement, Peltz referred to as off his proxy struggle.