财富500强公司近期裁员一览表

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Jan. 26: Sprint Nextel
            (nyse: S - news - people ) pink-slips 8,000 workers--recording more than $300 million in severance charges but saving $1.2 billion a year in labor costs.

Jan. 26: Home Depot
            (nyse: HD - news - people ) closes high-end home design shops and slims ranks at headquarters; dismisses 7,000.

Jan. 26: General Motors
            (nyse: GM - news - people ) cuts production at several plants and fires 2,000 in Michigan and Ohio.

Jan. 23: Brazil-based Deere & Company
            (nyse: DE - news - people ) subsidiary lays off 502 employees.

Jan. 23: Abercrombie & Fitch
            (nyse: ANF - news - people ) cuts 50 from headquarters as company leans expe

Jan. 23: Harley-Davidson
            (nyse: HOG - news - people ) sees 60% drop in profits in fourth quarter of 2008; fires 1,100 (10% of workforce).

Jan. 22: Microsoft
            (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) has first mass layoff in 34-year history; pink slips 5,000.

Jan. 22: Huntsman
            (nyse: HUN - news - people ) reduces workforce by 9%; cutting 1,175 regular workers and 490 full-time contractors.

Jan. 21: Burlington Santa Fe cuts 2,500 workers (5% of workforce) despite a 19% jump in earnings during the fourth quarter.

Jan. 21: UAL
            (nasdaq: UAUA - news - people ) fires 1,000 to cut overhead costs.

Jan. 21: SPX
            (nyse: SPW - news - people ) attempts to sell a business unit and cuts 400 employees to help endure the downturn.

Jan. 21: Intel
            (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) closes five manufacturing plants and pink slips 5,000.

Jan. 21: Walt Disney
            (nyse: DIS - news - people ) offers voluntary buyouts to 600 theme park executives on poor attendance.

Jan. 21: Wynn Resorts
            wraps up construction on Las Vegas Strip casino with 53-worker layoff in design and construction affiliate.

Jan. 21: Eaton
            (nyse: ETN - news - people ) brings total workforce reduction since the beginning of last year to 10% with 5,200-worker cut.

Jan. 21: Warner Bros. Entertainment--a part of Time Warner
            (nyse: TWX - news - people )--cuts 10% (800) of its jobs.

Jan. 20: Clear Channel Communications
            (nyse: CCU - news - people ) reduces workforce across the entire company by 9% accounting for 1,850 job losses.

Jan. 20: Deere & Co.
            (nyse: DE - news - people ) dismisses 120 at Iowa plant.

Jan. 16: ConocoPhillips
            (nyse: COP - news - people ) trims capital spending by 18%, writes off $34 billion and reduces workforce by 4% (1,300 jobs).

Jan. 16: Hertz Global Holdings
            (nyse: HTZ - news - people ) sets out for worldwide restructuring in first quarter of 2009; cuts 4,000 jobs.

Jan. 16: WellPoint
            (nyse: WLP - news - people ) reduces workforce by 600 and removes 900 open positions.

Jan. 16: Advanced Micro Devices
            (nyse: AMD - news - people ) reduces global workforce by 9% (1,100 jobs).

Jan. 15: Xerox
            (nyse: XRX - news - people ) cuts 275 jobs in New York region.

Jan. 15: MeadWestvaco
            (nyse: MWV - news - people ) fires 2,000 and plans closings or restructurings at up to 14 plants.

Jan. 15: Autodesk
            (nasdaq: ADSK - news - people ) expects loss from 2008 fourth quarter; pink-slips 750 (10% of workforce).

Jan. 15: Marshall & Ilsley
            (nyse: MI - news - people ) cuts 8% of staff (830) in ongoing cost-cutting.

Jan. 15: General Electric
            (nyse: GE - news - people )'s (nyse: GE - news - people ) jet-engine group cuts 1,000 white-collar jobs.

Jan. 14: Ecolab
            (nyse: ECL - news - people ) restructures and reduces workforce by 4% (1,000 jobs).

Jan. 14: Delta Air Lines
            (nyse: DAL - news - people ) gives 2,000 early retirements as part of 8% capacity reduction.

Jan. 14: Motorola
            (nyse: MOT - news - people ) lays off 4,000 following a 3,000-worker layoff last year; expects savings of $700 million a year.

Jan. 14: Google
            (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) fires 100 hirers as it cuts back on contract workers and temporary employees.

Jan. 13: Cummins
            (nyse: CMI - news - people ) freezes salaries for the rest of the year and lets 800 go.

Jan. 13: Pfizer
            (nyse: PFE - news - people ) cuts 800 researchers as it lowers cost in the face of poor performance and coming patent losses.

Jan. 12: Mosaic
            (nyse: MOS - news - people ) fires 1,000 in Saskatchewan.

Jan. 12: Aircraft maker and Textron
            (nyse: TXT - news - people ) subsidiary Cessna sends 2,000 packing.

Jan. 12: Best Buy
            (nyse: BBY - news - people ) clears 12.5% of its headquarters staff with 500-employee layoff.

Jan. 12: Precision Castparts
            (nyse: PCP - news - people ) dismisses 40 as airline industry continues to struggle.

Jan. 9: Oracle
            (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) reportedly cuts 500 from U.S. sales and consulting businesses.

Jan. 9: Boeing
            (nyse: BA - news - people ) cuts 4,500 and returns workforce size to what it was in early 2008.

Jan. 9: Freeport-McMoRan
            (nyse: FCX - news - people ) slices workforce in half at Arizona mine; 1,550 workers let go.

Jan. 9: Smitfield Foods' (nyse: SFD - news - people ) Butterball--the nation's largest turkey company--fires 75 at Missouri plant.

Jan. 8: Union Pacific
            (nyse: UNP - news - people ) pink-slips 230 as company struggles; stock down 22% year-to-date.

Jan. 8: Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works--owned by General Dynamics
            (nyse: GD - news - people )--dismisses 179.

Jan. 8: Continuing companywide job cuts at Eaton
            (nyse: ETN - news - people ) hit Iowa, with 78 laid off.

Jan. 8: Walgreen
            (nyse: WAG - news - people ) cuts 1,000--roughly 9%--from corporate and field manager ranks.

Jan. 7: EMC
            (nyse: EMC - news - people ) fires 2,400 as it reduces 2009 expenses by $350 million.

Jan. 6: Alcoa
            (nyse: AA - news - people ) starts global salary and hiring freeze, plans sale of four non-core businesses and cuts workforce by 13% (13,500 jobs).

Jan. 6: Aqua Glass--a subsidiary owned by Masco
            (nyse: MAS - news - people )--pink-slips 30 employees.

Jan. 5: Cigna
            (nyse: CI - news - people ) reduces workforce by 4% (1,100 jobs).

Jan. 5: United States Steel
            (nyse: X - news - people ) cuts 50 jobs as it closes production lines in Texas.

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*Total announced layoffs at America's 500 largest public companies as measured by a composite ranking of sales, profits, assets and market value during January 2009. Includes layoffs at subsidiaries, joint ventures and majority-owned companies.