Companies With Record Layoffs In 2012: 24/7 Wall Street

The Companies With Record Layoffs This Year
FILE - This Feb 21, 2012 file photo shows a Hewlett Packard logo in Frisco, Texas. Hewlett-Packard Co. showed signs of recovery in the first three months of the year as it strengthened its position as the world's largest maker of personal computers and gained back some of the business it had lost while weighing whether to dump its PC division. HP's stock jumped nearly 7 percent by early afternoon Thursday, April 12, 2012, the first trading day since research groups Gartner and IDC released their quarterly PC shipment estimates. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
FILE - This Feb 21, 2012 file photo shows a Hewlett Packard logo in Frisco, Texas. Hewlett-Packard Co. showed signs of recovery in the first three months of the year as it strengthened its position as the world's largest maker of personal computers and gained back some of the business it had lost while weighing whether to dump its PC division. HP's stock jumped nearly 7 percent by early afternoon Thursday, April 12, 2012, the first trading day since research groups Gartner and IDC released their quarterly PC shipment estimates. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Whatever recovery the jobs market posted in 2012, mass layoffs remained impressively high. Dozens of companies each fired thousands of workers, with failing firms at the top of the list based on total cuts.

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