Several major companies have announced job cuts in the past few months, including:
DaimlerChrysler: 26,000
Motorola: 22,000
Lucent Technologies: 16,000
Verizon: 10,000
Procter & Gamble: 9,600
Solectron: 8,200
Sara Lee: 7,000
Whirlpool: 6,000
J.C. Penney: 5,300
Compaq: 5,000
Xerox: 4,000
Nortel Networks: 9,000
The Walt Disney Co.: 4,000
Textron: 3,600
Schawb: 3,400
Ericsson LM: 3,300
Gateway: 3,000
ShopKo Stores: 2,500
AOL Time Warner: 2,400
Standard Register: 2,400
Sears: 2,400
Electrolux: 2,000
Service Merchandise: 1,750
Hewlett-Packard: 1,700
American Greetings Corp.: 1,500
Amazon.com: 1,300
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3Com: 1,200
Freightliner.: 1,085
Norfolk Southern: 1,000-2,000
Source: Individual companies; Associated Press