According to Forbes Magazine there have been 362,335 layoffs at America's largest 500 companies since November 2008.
ADP said private employers cut 522,000 jobs in January versus a revised 659,000 jobs lost in December.

Here's a partial list of worldwide layoffs at major companies just since the beginning of 2009:

Layoffs Company
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50 Abercrombie & Fitch
1,100 Advanced Micro Dev
1,500 AK Steel
13,500 Alcoa
1,300 Ashland
750 Autodesk
500 Best Buy
1,200 Black & Decker
10,000 Boeing
1,000 Bose
2,500 Burlington Santa Fe
22,110 Caterpillar
4,600 Cessna
1,100 Cigna
30,000 Circuit City
1,850 Clear Channel
1,300 ConocoPhillips
3,500 Corning
800 Cummins
622 Deere & Company
2,000 Delta Air Lines
5,200 Eaton
1,000 Ecolab
2,400 EMC
5,000 Ericsson
1,200 Ford Motor Credit
1,550 Freeport-McMoRan
2,137 Freightliner
179 General Dynamics
1,000 General Electric
2,000 General Motors
100 Google
1,100 Harley-Davidson
4,000 Hertz Global
7,000 Home Depot
1,665 Huntsman
2,800 IBM
5,000 Intel
4,500 Kodak
2,500 Lenovo
540 Lincoln National
7,000 Macy's
830 Marshall & Ilsley
70 Masco
2,000 MeadWestvaco
5,000 Microsoft
1,000 Mosaic
4,000 Motorola
1,500 ON Semiconductor
500 Oracle
15,000 Panasonic
19,000 Pfizer
19,500 Pfizer
5,900 PNC Financial
40 Precision Castparts
1,100 Saks
2,950 Seagate
75 Smithfield Foods
16,000 Sony
8,000 Sprint Nextel
400 SPX
6,700 Starbucks
1,300 Sun Microsystems
1,000 Target
3,400 Texas Instruments
1,500 Time Warner
1,000 UAL
230 Union Pacific
1,300 Unisys
50 US Steel
1,000 Walgreen
600 Walt Disney
1,500 Wellpoint
53 Wynn Resorts
275 Xerox
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