The requirement to move, retire or quit decimated the ranks of Disney’s storied creatives. In an open letter to Disney leadership in March, LGBTQ+ activists inside the company announced plans for a number of walk-outs and also demanded that the company stand down from the planned move after the state passed legislatio n barring schools from discussing “sexual orientation or gender identity.” The letter demanded that Disney cease “any efforts to move employees to Florida office locations… Guaranteeing no employee will be terminated when denying relocation to Florida.” The 2,000 employees were expected to join over 60,000 Disney employees already in central Florida as the company built a new campus in the planned community of Lake Nona, Florida - a location approximately 20 miles from the Disney World Resort in Orlando.
Disney to Move 2,000 California Jobs to Central Florida
