U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Department of Labor Logo United States Department of Labor
Dot gov

The .gov means it's official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you're on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Mass Layoff Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics > Mass Layoff Statistics > Data
Table 1. Selected business functions involved in nonseasonal extended mass layoff events, selected quarters, 2010 and 2011(Number of reports)
Selected business functions by business process (1) Total Main Secondary
IV
2010		 III
2011(r)		 IV
2011(p)		 IV
2010		 III
2011(r)		 IV
2011(p)		 IV
2010		 III
2011(r)		 IV
2011(p)
Total (2)
 1,897 1,872 1,573 864 836 703 1,033 1,036 870

Producing goods/providing services

                  
Construction activities
 330 198 214 310 188 205 20 10 9
Producing goods
 168 156 152 145 129 126 23 27 26
Providing services
 89 95 82 52 40 20 37 55 62
Accounting services
 26 31 26 4 2 3 22 29 23
Contracted services
 98 148 112 64 121 87 34 27 25
Engineering services
 30 31 38 8 12 9 22 19 29
Entertainment services
 33 89 68 27 87 66 6 2 2
Facility maintenance services
 41 40 46 13 11 11 28 29 35
Financial management
 12 17 14 5 3 1 7 14 13
Financial services
 20 22 14 12 16 11 8 6 3
Food and cafeteria services
 44 35 26 26 19 14 18 16 12
Gaming services
 15 3 1 14 1 1 1 2 -
Health care services
 27 33 17 24 31 15 3 2 2
Housekeeping services
 14 10 8 1 1 1 13 9 7
Lodging services
 9 5 8 6 4 7 3 1 1
Maintaining and repairing products
 23 23 13 4 6 2 19 17 11
Security services
 10 8 9 4 3 2 6 5 7
Assembling products
 43 35 42 6 14 13 37 21 29
Fabricating
 34 18 30 24 12 16 10 6 14
Quality assurance/quality control
 45 39 15 1 1 - 44 38 15
Supervision--first line or direct
 68 69 53 - - - 68 69 53

Procurement, logistics, distribution

                  
Buying
 9 7 9 - - - 9 7 9
Distribution
 33 46 28 4 7 5 29 39 23
Packing
 19 28 21 2 5 - 17 23 21
Receiving
 19 18 16 1 - - 18 18 16
Shipping
 34 38 22 5 1 2 29 37 20
Transporting
 27 41 17 10 13 7 17 28 10
Warehousing
 43 34 28 11 9 5 32 25 23

General management and firm infrastructure

                  
Administrative and clerical support
 120 126 76 18 11 12 102 115 64
General management
 81 103 74 1 1 2 80 102 72

Human resource management

                  
Human resources, including recruiting
 57 45 36 4 2 3 53 43 33
Payroll and compensation
 19 21 19 1 6 8 18 15 11
Training
 6 8 11 1 2 1 5 6 10

Marketing, sales, customer accounts

                  
Advertising
 6 5 4 1 2 1 5 3 3
Billing
 7 6 4 - - - 7 6 4
Marketing
 11 15 19 1 1 2 10 14 17
Order processing
 25 30 11 1 3 - 24 27 11
Selling
 41 37 39 23 23 17 18 14 22
Telemarketing
 7 6 1 3 5 - 4 1 1

Customer and after-sales service

                  
Call center activities
 10 11 8 4 5 5 6 6 3
Customer service
 52 51 52 3 11 5 49 40 47
Installing products
 13 4 17 - - 2 13 4 15
Technical support
 16 15 21 - 1 1 16 14 20

Technology and process development

                  
Computer systems development
 3 4 2 1 2 1 2 2 1
Computer systems maintenance
 9 6 3 1 - 1 8 6 2
Data processing
 8 10 6 2 - - 6 10 6
Internet web services
 2 5 2 - 1 - 2 4 2
Software development and testing
 8 4 5 2 2 1 6 2 4
Software and IT services
 13 16 9 1 2 - 12 14 9

Other business functions

 20 27 25 13 20 12 7 7 13

Other

                  
Events with nonstandard functions reported
 38 28 33 20 19 19 18 9 14
Refusal (3)
 2 1 - 2 1 - - - -
Does not know (4)
 6 7 5 6 7 5 - - -

Footnotes:
(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: March 7, 2012