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A study released Monday by Challenger, Gray & Christmaes found that tech industry layoffs in the second quarter amounterdto 33,891 in the U.S., a 60 perceny drop from the first quarter. The study also found the second-quartert job cuts were about equal to the second quarterrof 2008, before the worsft of the financial crisis rocked the The local technology sector has been up and depending on the industry, according to Arizona Workforce, a research publication by the Arizonaz Department of Commerce. Computer and electronic parte manufacturers droppedabout 1,200 jobs from May 2008 to but aerospace manufacturers added about 500.
Also down was which shed about 1,600 jobs in the Phoenix area from May 2008 to and professional, scientific and technical services, which lost nearlyy 10 percent of the sector’s May 2008 work force of roughlg 101,000 in the past At the same time, the report shows that losses from April to May were much smallefr or flat in most of those sectors. “The downtur in the economy has affected each sector ofthe high-tecyh industry differently,” said Jim Garnett, executive director for TechAmerica in “In a recent ranking by the Bureau of Laborf Statistics, while Arizona’s manufacturing employment is down over the year by 5.
1 the state had one of the smallest percentage losses compared to all states. From April to May, computer and electronic parts lost 200 jobs whiles aerospace gained 300 he said. Although the rate of layoffs appears tobe slowing, the U.S. tech industryt lost 118,108 jobs in the first six monthof 2009, the largest declinew in the past seven years.
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