Netflix London layoffs have reached the company’s United Kingdom office, with production executive Anna Mallett among those leaving. Reports on November 2 put the London cuts at 2 to 3 percent of staff at the headquarters, which employs several hundred people. Mallett was vice president of production for the United Kingdom and Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and her departure was first reported by The Ankler, according to Deadline and Variety.
The Netflix London layoffs follow a wider restructuring announced in the United States last month. Netflix said in October it would eliminate about 1,000 jobs worldwide, around 6 percent of its workforce, in its largest round of cuts since 2022. The Netflix London layoffs now show that restructuring reaching the company’s international offices, with staff in communications and marketing also reported to have left alongside production roles.
Anna Mallett and the Netflix London layoffs
Mallett joined Netflix in 2020 from ITN, the news producer for ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, where she had been chief executive. Before ITN she held senior roles at BBC Studios, including group chief operating officer and managing director of production. At Netflix she was based in London and served as vice president of physical production for the United Kingdom and local language production across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
Her teams covered production management, post production, visual effects, music, production technology and safety for live action series, non fiction and film. That remit connected production operations across regions and kinds of programming. FilmoFilia, citing Variety, noted that her responsibilities covered the practical side of making shows and films, rather than deciding which titles to commission.
What Mallett worked on at Netflix
During her time at Netflix, the company’s United Kingdom successes included Baby Reindeer and Adolescence, both of which became major talking points for the service. Those titles give context for the period she worked at the company. Netflix has not publicly detailed how her responsibilities will be shared out.
In September, Mallett delivered a keynote at IBC 2026 outlining Netflix’s investments in production infrastructure and technology. Less than two months later she was leaving as part of the Netflix London layoffs.
How the wider restructuring unfolded
The global cuts behind the Netflix London layoffs, announced in October, followed concerns about slowing subscriber and revenue growth, according to trade reporting. Among the highest profile departures in the United States were chief content officer Bela Bajaria and film boss Dan Lin. Former Disney and Fox executive Peter Rice has since replaced Bajaria as Netflix’s content chief, a leadership change that arrived alongside the job cuts.
Variety reported concerns about further changes, particularly to international output, as the restructuring spread beyond the United States. FilmoFilia cautioned that personnel cuts and a leadership transition do not by themselves establish a new commissioning policy or film cancellations. The distinction matters for producers watching the London office: a change in who manages production is not the same as a change in what Netflix orders.
Netflix London layoffs in context
Netflix co-chief executives Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos have maintained that the company’s international approach will continue. In the company’s most recent earnings call, Peters pointed to strong results across Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, saying local titles were supporting both engagement and business growth.
The Netflix London layoffs, at 2 to 3 percent, are smaller in percentage terms than the global figure of about 6 percent, but they hit a senior production role that touched many markets. For a company that has built much of its recent growth on local language titles made outside the United States, the loss of a production chief with a multi region remit is a change producers and crews will watch closely.
What happens next
Netflix has not said who will take over Mallett’s responsibilities, or whether the role will be filled in the same form. The company has also not given a separate figure for London job losses beyond the 2 to 3 percent range reported by Deadline and Variety. Until those details appear, the confirmed facts are the scale of the Netflix London layoffs, the identity of the most senior departure, and the global restructuring they form part of.
The Netflix London layoffs close a chapter for an executive who moved from British broadcasting into the streaming business in 2020 and stayed for just over five years. Her next move has not been announced, and Netflix has not commented beyond the restructuring it already disclosed in October.