Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) also announced layoffs in the past few months.
One of his part-time employers has announced layoffs to take place between now and summer.
After successive headcount reductions, the unit is a target for the brunt of the newly announced layoffs.
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Geographically, the Midwest continues to feel the heat, topping the charts with 13, 541 announced layoffs in January.
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As of Friday, the number of companies that had announced layoffs was growing.
This makes it harder to shrink, despite a series of recently announced layoffs.
Anticipating the excise tax, numerous companies already have announced layoffs or withheld investments.
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The Time Inc. magazine business, the smallest of the three, has announced layoffs to reflect reduced demand for print editions.
Over the past few months, companies like Boeing, Citigroup, Research in Motion, and PepsiCo have announced layoffs.
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Boeing, for example, recently announced layoffs at a plant in Texas while Lockheed Martin has warned the fiscal cliff could cost jobs.
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Two dozen biotechs have announced layoffs in the last two months, while others are closing down nonessential programs in a desperate bid to survive.
Major companies like Peugeot PSA, in autos, Sanofi in pharma, Carrefour, in retail, have announced layoffs leaving unemployment at levels not seen since 1993.
Q1 2011 recorded the lowest number of announced layoffs since 1995, striking a positive note, along with relatively strong private payroll numbers, for the beleaguered job market.
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Combined with cost reductions from real estate sales and announced layoffs of 4, 000 to 5, 000 people, Bachman thinks the company could see a 44% gross margin next year.
Corning (nyse: GLW - news - people), the fiber-optic firm, announced layoffs in its photonic devices unit, which makes devices that send light impulses over fiber-optic cables.
E-Trade is the only big online broker that has not announced layoffs in the past year, he says proudly, glossing over the hundreds of workers who have lost their jobs in performance reviews and outsourcing cutbacks.
Merck, Borders, Cisco, Lockheed Martin, and Boston Scientific announced plans to cut 38, 000 jobs in July, 58% of the 66, 414 announced layoffs for the month. (Read Job Cut Announcements Hit 16-Month High, California And New Jersey Lead Cuts).
Cheney's company alone had recently announced the layoffs of more than 10, 000 workers.
And recently, the company announced additional layoffs to the 800 already--about 1, 250 more at RBS Citizens over the next couple of years, mostly in the bank's technology, purchasing and property services division.
To cut expenses, it slashed 4, 200 jobs in the fourth quarter in addition to the 17, 000 layoffs announced in the spring, and CFO Gary Crittenden said more layoffs are in the offing.
But layoffs announced by advertising services companies have tapered off in recent months.
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The Forbes.com Layoff Tracker, updated daily, currently counts 631, 196 layoffs announced at America's 500 largest public companies since Nov. 1, 2008.
The Forbes.com Layoff Tracker, updated daily, currently counts 560, 477 layoffs announced at America's 500 largest public companies since Nov. 1, 2008.
Andersen, meanwhile, continues to collapse, having announced 7, 000 layoffs Monday, about a quarter of its U.S. workforce.
Another major cutback hit U.S. Airways in Arlington, Virginia, where 11, 000 workers were given pink slips, while in Houston, Continental Airlines announced 12, 000 layoffs.
Big name French companies that have announced job losses and layoffs recently include car-maker Renault, advertising firm Havas - trimming 5% of its workforce - plane maker EADS, and Air France.
Earlier this year, the company announced 4, 000 planned layoffs.
Major U.S. carriers announced schedule cutbacks and plans for layoffs in the wake of the attacks.
In November the company announced over 10, 000 additional layoffs with the elimination of some work shifts at several plants.
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