Follow up to December 5, 2008 posting, Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment Situation, November 2008, from the Wall Street Journal blog, Real Time Economics: Fourth Quarter Layoffs: Selection of Job Cuts by Major Companies – “Layoff announcements have been a common occurrence this quarter as the financial crisis weighs on companies in every sector of the economy. The following chart is a selection of some announcements of job cuts since October. Some numbers are estimates. The chart can be sorted by company name, date of announcement, number of job cuts and percent of work force eliminated.”