Tech Job Losses Slow in March

Despite signs that the U.S. economic downturn has found a bottom, companies large and small continue to shed jobs at a record pace. In March, more than 660,000 jobs were eliminated. While the job market news is grim overall, it’s not so dark in the technology market.

In March, the technology market eliminated nearly 13,000 jobs. Although a big number, it’s significantly smaller than the job losses in previous two months of the first quarter, which tallied nearly 160,000 positions.

Year to date, 171,000 jobs have been lost to the economic recession, as nearly every blue chip vendor has executed or announced reductions in their workforces.

The following is the list of job losses by technology company.

	Company	Layoffs
March	Agilent Technologies	2,700
Month Total	Dell	150
12,731	Garmin	181
	Google	200
	IBM	5,000
	Micron Technologies	2,000
	Nokia	1,700
	Northrup Grumman	750
	Sonus Networks	50
February	Agilent Technologies	600
Month Total	AMCC	100
33,868	Cisco	2,000
	Electronic Arts	1,100
	Marvell Semiconductor	46
	Micron Technology	2,000
	NetApp	480
	Nokia	625
	Panasonic	15,000
	Pentair Electronic Packaging	174
	Pioneer	10,000
	Razorfish	70
	STEC Inc	35
	THQ	600
	Western Digital	22
	Xyratex International, Inc.	311
	Yahoo	705
January	AMD	1,100
Month Total	AOL	700
124,320	Attachmate	120
	Autodesk	750
	BlueArc	21
	Bose	1,000
	Circuit City	34,000
	Citrix	460
	Coremetrics	29
	Dell	1,900
	Electoronic Arts	600
	EMC	2,400
	Ericsson	5,000
	Google	100
	Google (contractors)	5,000
	Hitachi	7,000
	IBM	2,850
	Intel	6,000
	Kronos	260
	Lenovo	2,500
	Lexmark	375
	Logitech	500
	Microsoft	5,000
	Motorola	4,000
	NEC	20,000
	Nokia	1,000
	Oracle	500
	Philips	6,000
	SAP	300
	Seagate	800
	Sprint/Nextel	8,000
	Sun	1,300
	Texas Instruments	3,400
	Unisys	1,300
	WatchGuard	55

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