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To: SecularBull who wrote (31450)2/20/2001 6:59:12 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 65232
 
Layoff's Continue Complements of Greenspeak...

cbs.marketwatch.com

Layoffs add up

Since the start of December, employers have announced almost 300,000 job cuts amid a slowing economy. The manufacturing sector alone accounts for nearly two-thirds of the cuts. Below is a partial list.

Latest layoff news
2/15 Nortel ups its toll to 10,000
2/15 Dell to let 1,700 go
2/15 Alltel warns, lays off 1,000
2/14 Goodyear cuts 7,000 jobs
Source: Challenger, Gray, Christmas


TECHNOLOGY LAYOFFS
WorldCom 11,550
Nortel 10,000
Unisys 5,000
Standard Register 2,400
Dell Computer 1,700
Xerox1 800
Engage 550
Digital Broadband Comm. 450
ADC Telecomm. 400
Corel 320
Cambridge Tech. Partners 280
Computer Sciences Corp. 237
General DataComm 200
Convergent Communications 150
Startec Global Comm. 140

Lucent 10,000
Motorola 9,300
Gateway 3,000
Hewlett-Packard 1,700
Alltel 1,000
JDS Uniphase 700
Sony 500
Rhythms NetConnections 450
Juno 325
AT&T Broadband 300
Vitts Networks 270
Perot Systems 200
Neon Software 150
Network Commerce 145
F5 Networks 100


1 5,200 announced last fall

INTERNET LAYOFFS
Amazon.com 1,300
Etoys 700
Barnesandnoble.com 350
Pets.com2 320
ExciteAtHome 250
AltaVista 200
MVP.com3 166
Drugstore.com 125
Netpliance 93
MarchFirst 1,000
GO.com 400
Ameritrade 330
AllAdvantage.com 250
LetsBuyIt.com 200
LookSmart 172
ECal 140
HomeGrocer.com 100


2 Majority of staff, shutting down 3 Total, shutting down

MANUFACTURING LAYOFFS
General Electric4 75,000
DaimlerChrysler 26,000
Boeing 8,000
Whirlpool 6,000
Keane 1,000
Honeywell4 50,000
GM 11,100
Sara Lee 7,000
Gillette 2,700


4 Over next 2 years, according to Business Week and other sources; 50,000 of these are from Honeywell. The company disputes the reports.

FINANCE LAYOFFS
JP Morgan 5,000
PricewaterhouseCoopers 400
Bank of America 100
Aetna 5,000
Prudential Securities 160



MEDIA LAYOFFS
AOL Time Warner 2,400
CNN 400
NBCi 150
CNET 190
Entertaindom 200
Quokka 90



RETAIL LAYOFFS
Montgomery Ward 28,000
Sears 2,400
Crown Books 450
JC Penney 5,565
Service Merchandise 1,750