Corel Corp. has chopped its global workforce by approximately 20 per cent, the company said in a statement Friday morning.

United Parcel Service Inc. will reorganize its U.S. operations to three regions from five, reduce its districts to 20 from 46 and eliminate about 1,800 management and administrative positions as it works to “streamline” its corporate structure.

Lorraine Clayton has seen her share of tough job markets, but she has never experienced anything like this.

Amway Corp.

Frontier Oil Corp. is laying off 28 people at its Cheyenne refinery as it wrestles with weak demand for transportation fuels.

Bassett Furniture will close a fiberboard plant in Henry County, eliminating 45 jobs by the end of the year.

Pratt and Whitney Canada says it plans to cut 410 jobs from its global workforce and close a Montreal-area plant by the end of next year as a result of weakness in the aerospace market.

Publicis Groupe, the French owner of ad agency networks including Saatchi & Saatchi, has revealed that it has cut 1,800 staff so far this year and is seeking to make more than €170m (£150m) in cuts to fight the impact of the global recession.

Publicis Groupe, the French owner of ad agency networks including Saatchi & Saatchi, has revealed that it has cut 1,800 staff so far this year and is seeking to make more than €170m (£150m) in cuts to fight the impact of the global recession. The company said that it had cut its global headcount by 1,800 since January. That represents about 4% of a worldwide staff of 44,727 as at 31 December, according to a 2008 annual financial report.

Detroit Metro Airport plans to shrink its workforce by as many as 59 positions by October, with some of the reductions occurring through layoffs. The airport employs 659 workers and wants to reduce that to the 600 to 620 range. It also has an informal hiring freeze in place