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Print Edition StoriesThursday, March 26, 2009
MHT survey: Largest tech companies shed 10K jobs since 2008
By Mass High Tech Staff
Interactive map of Greater Boston tech layoffs in 2009
How is the economic crisis affecting tech companies?
The recession has wiped out 10,000 workers at New England’s top 20 tech employers over the last year, according to an exclusive survey of tech companies conducted by Mass High Tech’s directory database research team.
The largest 20 companies responding to the survey this year reported employing more than 91,000 workers in New England, compared to more than 101,000 in the year-earlier survey. Verizon Inc. and IBM Corp. took the top two spots both years, but Verizon’s New England payroll dropped from 14,000 employees in 2008 to 13,000 in 2009. IBM dropped from 13,243 in 2008 to 12,678 in 2009.
Defense contractor BAE Systems dropped 300 New England employees in 2008 to 4,700 this year.
Some companies did add to their workforce, however.
Stratford, Conn.-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. grew from 8,340 employees to 9,444, moving up the list to No. 3. Computer Sciences Corp. also grew, increasing the payroll from 2,950 in 2008 to 3,011 this year, and Cambridge-based biotechnology company Genzyme Corp. grew from 3,879 workers to 4,478, while Cambridge-based Biogen Idec Inc. grew from 1,757 to 1,800.
Companies on the list included:
1. Verizon Communications
2. IBM Corp.
3. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.
4. Comcast
5. Covidien
6. Philips Electronics North America
7. BAE Systems
8. Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics
9. Genzyme Corp.
10. Saint-Gobain
11. CSC
12. Medical Information Technology Inc.
13. MIT Lincoln Laboratory
14. Goodrich Corp. (Goodrich ISR Systems)
15. Osram Sylvania
16. Boston Scientific Corp.
17. Biogen Idec
18. ADP
19. IDEXX Laboratories Inc.
20. Millipore Corp.
A PDF copy of the list of all 40 of 2009’s top technology employers in New England is available for download.
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