Tech Layoffs Climb Above 100,000

Channel Insider has reviewed publicly available reports of layoffs at technology vendors and solution providers. Since October, more than 100,000 technical, sales and market positions have been eliminated as a result of the deteriorating economy.
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Friday is becoming a dreaded day at most companies. What used to be seen as the start of the weekend is now the day most employees are advised they no longer have a job.

Since the beginning of the year, IT vendors have slashed more than 19,000 jobs—mostly sales and marketing positions, but also technical and R&D positions have been affected. Since October, more than 100,000 jobs have been eliminated by IT vendors and solution providers.

Not even the industry stalwarts can escape the economic plague. This week Google announced layoffs of 5,000 temporary and contract workers and 100 staff personnel. According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is considering headcount reductions. And Motorola announced a reduction in force of 4,000 workers.

While most IT companies remain cautiously optimistic about 2009 prospects and industry heavyweights such as Intel are forecasting a return to healthy margins, everyone from analysts to IT workers anticipate more layoffs to come.

The following are a list of layoffs by IT vendors and solution providers since October 2008 when the economic crisis began. The list, compiled by Channel Insider, is based on publicly available reports.

	Company	Layoffs
January 09	Attachmate	120
Month to Date	Autodesk	750
19,310	BlueArc	21
	Coremetrics	29
	Dell	1,900
	EMC	2,400
	Google	100
	Google (contractors)	5,000
	Kronos	260
	Lenovo	2,500
	Lexmark	375
	Logitech	500
	Motorola	4,000
	Oracle	500
	Seagate	800
	WatchGuard	55
December 08	Intrinsyc	95
Month Total	Adobe Systems	600
13,095	Sage North America	150
	AT&T	12,000
	Windstream	170
	Lexmark International	80
November 08	Kodak	150
Month Total	Spot Runner	115
21,433	Nortel Networks	1,300
	Motorola	3,000
	Nokia	600
	Tektronix	150
	Cadence	625
	AMD	500
	SanDisk	450
	BitTorrent	18
	Insight	240
	Circuit City	3,400
	Imation	200
	Applied Materials	1,800
	National Semiconductor	330
	Sun Microsystems	6,000
	Epicor	300
	KLA-Tencor	900
	Pillar Data Systems	150
	Lawson Software	200
	Lam Research	600
	Akamai	110
	Palm	105
	Quantum	180
	Fring	10
October 08	Micron	353
Month Total:	Qimonda	3,000
46,281	Jive Software	40
	Actel	60
	Sony Ericsson	2,000
	MPC Computers	200
	Lenovo	50
	Jaxtr	13
	Texas Instruments	300
	Softchoice	65
	Manhattan Associates	150
	HP	24,600
	Dell	8,900
	Xerox	3,000
	ADC Telecoms	325
	BroadSoft	12
	Symantec	788
	Freescale	2,400
	Aliph	25
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BY Kathleen A. Martin
Source：channelinsider

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