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Nearly 60,000 Laid Off In January So Far As Major Firms Increase Cuts

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Nearly 60,000 Laid Off In January So Far As Major Firms Increase Cuts

Photo caption: Roughly 60,000 U.S. workers lost their jobs in large corporate layoffs so far this month. Getty Images. Article by Brian Bushard. Forbes – January 21, 2023.

Topline Nearly 60,000 employees lost their jobs in large corporate layoffs in the U.S. so far this month—the highest monthly total since Forbes began tracking layoffs fueled by recession fears last year—with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Goldman Sachs and Salesforce cutting thousands of employees. […]