Fewer IT layoffs in first quarter 2004.

Information technology-producing industries accounted for 6 percent of extended mass layoff events and 10,556 worker separations in the first quarter, down from 11 percent of layoff events and 28,582 separations a year earlier. This was the lowest number of separations in this industry grouping comp...

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Publicado en:Monthly Labor Review Vol. 127; no. 6; p. 2
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: US Department of Labor Jun2004
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Sumario:Information technology-producing industries accounted for 6 percent of extended mass layoff events and 10,556 worker separations in the first quarter, down from 11 percent of layoff events and 28,582 separations a year earlier. This was the lowest number of separations in this industry grouping comprising communication equipment, communications services, computer hardware, and software and computer services since the first quarter of 2000. First quarter 2004 layoffs were most numerous in communications services and computer hardware.