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- BUSINESS, Page 61Business NotesEMPLOYMENTIt's Off the Job We Go
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- Never mind that Christmas is fast approaching. Many American
- companies have decided they can wait no longer to slash labor
- costs. In quick succession last week, three major U.S. firms
- announced layoffs. GM said it will significantly restructure its
- operations but won't disclose the actual number of job cuts
- until this week. Industry experts predict as many as 35,000
- employees, or about 9% of GM's work force, may be gone by 1993.
- TRW, the defense and credit-reporting firm, plans to cut 10,000
- jobs, or 14% of its payroll, during the next 18 months. And
- Xerox will lay off 2,500 workers, or some 2.5%, by mid-1992.
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- The latest wave of cutbacks follows similar steps by IBM,
- Citicorp and Kodak. Wall Street usually hails such moves, since
- they help shore up corporate profits. But economists worry that
- the deterioration in the job market will compound the recession
- by making consumers too nervous to shop.
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