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Thursday, January 29, 2009
by Dollars and Sense
From Mark Heschmeyer at CoStar.Caterpillar, Microsoft, Home Depot Layoff Tally Tops 32,000A Weekly Report on Future Corporate DownsizingsBy Mark Heschmeyer | January 29, 2009
In this week's issue:
- Caterpillar levels 20,000 jobs.
- Home Depot shuttering stores; cutting 7,000 jobs.
- Microsoft to lay off 5,000; halts data center project, office lease talks.
- Plus, a whole new round of major U.S. corporation closures and layoffs were announced in Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon and Virginia.
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Labels: closures and layoffs, Mark Heschmeyer, unemployment
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1/29/2009 11:34:00 AM