Goldman, Sachs & Co. this week may have to lay off thousands of people.
On 5th, Reuters quoted informed sources to report the decision that in Goldman Sachs this week nearly 3,200 employees laid off about.
Goldman Sachs and Citigroup will start layoff-plan with 12 thousand employees dismissed
In the face of the world economy continuing down and the growing loss of early warning, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs started large-scale layoffs, according to informed sources disclosed that there will be as high as 12 thousand employees laid off.
20 Million People will face the crisis of unemployment
Director-General of International Labor Organization (ILO) said because of financial crisis, until the end of 2009, global unemployment would be increased from 190 million in 2007 to 210 million people, which might increase 20 million people. Somavia called on governments to take prompt action to prevent the outbreak of the severe and lasting global social crisis.
Taiwan Unemployment Rate created the New High
The data from Taiwan showed on Oct.22 that the Taiwan jobless rate in September was 4.27%, which increased 0.13 percentage points compared with the previous month, hitting a 4-year high in the same month. For the serious problem of unemployment, the “Labor Commission” in the afternoon announced that in order to promote employment, they plan to invest NT 3.7 billion so as assist at least 30 thousand people to seek job.
Job-waiting Rate of University graduates reaches 15%, which is much higher than the average layoff rate in China
China Youth Research Center released “Report on rights and interests of youth in China” yesterday that our national job-waiting rate of university graduates has reached 15% approximately, which is much higher than the average jobless rate in society.
Semiconductor Industry: Actel lay off 10% Employees
The semiconductor industry reported the layoff news, Actel announced as scheduled to lay off 10% employees within global scale, approximately 60 people.
80% of Layoff Planning beats up the Local Government
Invista intends to carry out restructuring plans to lay off 80% employees. Invista said that this layoff mainly caused the U.S. financial turmoil. At the same time, in pursuit of company restructuring, the company needed new technical staff and would introduce a number of new employees to work on the new job.
Ten Internet Companies claim to lay off in United States this month
U.S. financial crisis now sweeps across all sectors; the number of unemployed people has risen sharply. The Internet industry will naturally have no exception. In this month, ten internet companies, Appcelerator, Pandora, Hi5, Jive Software, Sirius XM, Redfin, Tesla Motors, AdBrite, Zivity, Seesmic, claimed to lay off the employees in America.
Korean online games company lay off large-scale employees because of Poor performance
Because of poor performance, major South Korean online game companies have started to lay off employees and stop the bad games:
▲ CJ network will dismiss most of the developers
▲ 40 people in Gravity resign, and the company will fire more than 40 people
▲ Over 100 people in Hanbitsoft has resigned in 4 months
▲ JC Entertainment, NCSOFT, and Webzen have laid off the employees or demission from employees.
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