Selected business functions involved in nonseasonal extended mass layoff events, selected quarters, 2008 and 2009 : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Table 1. Selected business functions involved in nonseasonal extended mass layoff events, selected quarters, 2008 and 2009(Number of reports)
Selected business functions by business process (1)	Total			Main			Secondary
Selected business functions by business process (1)	III 2008	II 2009(r)	III 2009(p)	III 2008	II 2009(r)	III 2009(p)	III 2008	II 2009(r)	III 2009(p)
Total (2)	2,888	5,169	2,901	926	1,811	1,068	1,962	3,358	1,833
Producing goods/providing services
Construction activities	215	376	276	207	348	269	8	28	7
Producing goods	315	633	348	278	585	329	37	48	19
Providing services	42	82	63	18	49	30	24	33	33
Accounting services	60	115	60	7	10	7	53	105	53
Contracted services	55	103	92	49	79	63	6	24	29
Engineering services	40	115	60	7	20	18	33	95	42
Entertainment services	13	22	14	13	18	14	-	4	-
Facility maintenance services	98	177	91	4	12	4	94	165	87
Financial management	19	37	20	2	3	2	17	34	18
Financial services	38	53	32	26	35	22	12	18	10
Food and cafeteria services	49	36	43	29	19	19	20	17	24
Health care services	23	27	29	19	20	18	4	7	11
Housekeeping services	16	40	22	3	6	4	13	34	18
Lodging services	8	20	16	3	13	8	5	7	8
Maintaining and repairing products	24	43	32	6	9	6	18	34	26
Security services	12	9	20	5	3	10	7	6	10
Assembling products	79	175	64	36	96	25	43	79	39
Fabricating	46	174	66	27	137	46	19	37	20
Quality assurance/quality control	74	145	77	-	-	1	74	145	76
Supervision--first line or direct	135	243	148	1	2	-	134	241	148
Procurement, logistics, distribution
Buying	28	38	14	-	1	-	28	37	14
Distribution	63	77	33	13	18	8	50	59	25
Packing	38	69	32	2	5	4	36	64	28
Receiving	54	88	49	-	-	-	54	88	49
Shipping	88	172	85	5	18	10	83	154	75
Transporting	62	97	48	22	35	19	40	62	29
Warehousing	66	120	66	8	19	12	58	101	54
General management and firm infrastructure
Administrative support	177	331	178	12	21	12	165	310	166
Clerical support	170	275	132	4	10	2	166	265	130
General management	160	304	164	5	17	6	155	287	158
Human resource management
Human resources, including recruiting	103	178	88	3	2	1	100	176	87
Payroll and compensation	46	50	34	-	1	-	46	49	34
Training	8	11	8	-	1	2	8	10	6
Marketing, sales, customer accounts
Advertising	8	13	9	-	5	2	8	8	7
Billing	21	28	10	-	-	-	21	28	10
Marketing	41	53	24	5	4	3	36	49	21
Order processing	34	56	28	2	2	2	32	54	26
Selling	88	151	55	44	91	31	44	60	24
Telemarketing	7	12	6	3	8	4	4	4	2
Customer and after-sales service
Call center activities	26	39	23	16	25	13	10	14	10
Customer service	107	139	97	11	15	10	96	124	87
Installing products	4	18	10	-	4	1	4	14	9
Technical support	22	43	24	3	3	1	19	40	23
Technology and process development
Computer systems development	6	15	5	3	3	2	3	12	3
Computer systems maintenance	12	19	13	1	-	1	11	19	12
Data processing	13	16	13	2	2	-	11	14	13
Internet web services	4	5	3	1	2	-	3	3	3
Software development and testing	10	13	7	3	4	1	7	9	6
Software and IT services	32	64	39	3	9	7	29	55	32
Other business functions	29	50	31	15	22	19	14	28	12
Other
Events with nonstandard functions reported	128	207	126	75	150	87	53	57	39
Refusal (3)	3	4	6	3	4	6	-	-	-
Does not know (4)	64	37	18	64	37	18	-	-	-
(1) Business functions reported in this table were the most frequently cited functions in 2007. Functions are grouped by business process without regard to the industry of the establishment. Therefore, the process "operations" does not appear. (2) Data were reported by all states and the District of Columbia. (3) Excludes events in which the employer refused to participate in any part of the employer interview. (4) Excludes events in which contact with the employer was not possible. ^r = revised. ^p = preliminary. NOTE: Dash represents zero.