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Tracking the Cisco News for Layoffs

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Cisco, a tech company based in San Jose California, completed a wave of layoffs at the end of February 2009 totaling approximately 2000 of the 65,000 employees worldwide, 250 of which were at the headquarters. (more…)


Tracking the Unemployment Trends

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Change is upon us, and with 24 hour cable news, and a myriad of online sources for the latest doomful projections it sounds like every company in America is downsizing its workforce. For the latest tracking statistics in Tech for downsizing and those who have done some downsizing TechCrunch has been posting a running list of the global players and their work around the world.

See the Layoff Tracker here

Some of the notables include:

  • Pioneer (Worldwide) – 10,000 2/12/09
  • Cisco – 3,000 2/5/09
  • Panasonic – (Japan) 15,000 2/4/09
  • NEC – (Worldwide) 20,000 1/30/09
  • Microsoft – 5,000 1/22/09
  • … and many more

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Snapshot of the graph as of 2/17.



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