Selected business functions involved in nonseasonal extended mass layoff events, selected quarters, 2008 and 2009 : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Table 1. Selected business functions involved in nonseasonal extended mass layoff events, selected quarters, 2008 and 2009(Number of reports)
Selected business functions by business process (1)	Total			Main			Secondary
Selected business functions by business process (1)	IV 2008	III 2009(r)	IV 2009(p)	IV 2008	III 2009(r)	IV 2009(p)	IV 2008	III 2009(r)	IV 2009(p)
Total (2)	5,277	3,115	2,498	1,938	1,171	918	3,339	1,944	1,580
Producing goods/providing services
Construction activities	454	320	301	428	313	280	26	7	21
Producing goods	812	374	281	762	352	259	50	22	22
Providing services	89	68	60	44	35	32	45	33	28
Accounting services	107	65	58	12	7	4	95	58	54
Contracted services	103	96	96	77	68	65	26	28	31
Engineering services	77	67	48	10	19	11	67	48	37
Entertainment services	30	17	12	27	17	11	3	-	1
Facility maintenance services	177	100	87	7	6	6	170	94	81
Financial management	23	22	11	2	2	1	21	20	10
Financial services	53	35	19	31	24	11	22	11	8
Food and cafeteria services	60	44	29	24	20	9	36	24	20
Health care services	15	29	18	14	18	14	1	11	4
Housekeeping services	19	24	19	6	4	4	13	20	15
Lodging services	46	18	18	15	10	9	31	8	9
Maintaining and repairing products	59	33	26	12	7	6	47	26	20
Security services	26	20	15	7	11	8	19	9	7
Assembling products	143	68	58	68	25	17	75	43	41
Fabricating	126	68	54	71	48	36	55	20	18
Quality assurance/quality control	116	81	67	-	1	-	116	80	67
Supervision--first line or direct	237	155	100	2	-	-	235	155	100
Procurement, logistics, distribution
Buying	48	18	17	1	1	1	47	17	16
Distribution	80	33	39	18	8	6	62	25	33
Packing	66	32	25	7	4	3	59	28	22
Receiving	110	54	29	2	-	1	108	54	28
Shipping	166	91	73	17	12	6	149	79	67
Transporting	109	52	52	34	22	20	75	30	32
Warehousing	141	69	61	18	12	12	123	57	49
General management and firm infrastructure
Administrative support	303	190	137	18	13	12	285	177	125
Clerical support	311	143	105	7	3	1	304	140	104
General management	283	174	129	23	6	4	260	168	125
Human resource management
Human resources, including recruiting	181	97	85	2	1	-	179	96	85
Payroll and compensation	70	37	23	-	-	-	70	37	23
Training	11	8	5	-	2	-	11	6	5
Marketing, sales, customer accounts
Advertising	13	9	6	3	2	1	10	7	5
Billing	26	10	15	-	-	-	26	10	15
Marketing	45	24	22	4	3	-	41	21	22
Order processing	56	28	28	1	2	2	55	26	26
Selling	169	58	55	101	32	24	68	26	31
Telemarketing	4	6	4	3	4	3	1	2	1
Customer and after-sales service
Call center activities	24	26	29	19	16	19	5	10	10
Customer service	123	102	74	13	10	7	110	92	67
Installing products	17	11	14	3	1	2	14	10	12
Technical support	35	25	26	-	1	2	35	24	24
Technology and process development
Computer systems development	6	5	7	3	2	1	3	3	6
Computer systems maintenance	10	14	9	2	1	-	8	13	9
Data processing	12	13	9	-	-	-	12	13	9
Internet web services	3	3	3	1	-	1	2	3	2
Software development and testing	9	7	5	3	1	3	6	6	2
Software and IT services	48	41	25	10	7	2	38	34	23
Other business functions	26	31	10	6	18	2	20	13	8
Other
Events with nonstandard functions reported	258	135	74	173	91	54	85	44	20
Refusal (3)	9	6	8	9	6	8	-	-	-
Does not know (4)	56	21	16	56	21	16	-	-	-
(1) Business functions reported in this table were the most frequently cited functions in 2007. Functions are grouped by business process without regard to the industry of the establishment. Therefore, the process "operations" does not appear. (2) Data were reported by all states and the District of Columbia. (3) Excludes events in which the employer refused to participate in any part of the employer interview. (4) Excludes events in which contact with the employer was not possible. ^r = revised. ^p = preliminary. NOTE: Dash represents zero.

Last Modified Date: February 25, 2010