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Screwed: Possible 2,000 at AOL

A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.

Today’s Total: 3,196

AOL may have to eliminate up to 2,000 employees after Alix Partners, a consulting firm, advises on how to save $300 million per year… Iowa’s Department of Human Services anticipates laying off up to 400 workers… The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation will be downsizing by 200 employees in the next nine months… Up to 200 employees, mostly in law enforcement and corrections, will be laid off in Spokane County, Wa…  Syracuse County, N.Y. laid off 135 staffers in order to close a budget deficit for 2010… Coca Cola HBC Ireland is set to lay off 130 workers… As part of “organizational fine-tuning,” eBay will lay off fewer than 60 employees… McCann Erikson San Francisco handed out 40 layoff notices… Franciscan Skemp Healthcare cut 25 employees in Wisconsin in response to declining numbers of patients… At least 6 staff members have been laid off from Vogue as the magazine tries to meet a 25% budget cut.

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