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    Tech Job Losses Slow in March

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    The technology market shed nearly 13,000 jobs in March. While a big number, it's significantly lower than the job losses posted in January and February.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    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 

    Resource Library:

    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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