Sentence examples for laid off over from inspiring English sources

"When they laid off over 4,000 employees in Houston and a lot of them lost their severance pay and their savings, there developed in Houston a lot of difficult relationships from people toward Enron," said Drayton McLane, owner of the Astros.

Chambers, who laid off over 8,000 employees (from a total workforce of of 44,000) after hitting a wall in 2001, is in the midst of cutting perhaps 2,000 of Cisco's now 66,000 employees.

Being a curmudgeon, and a penny-pinching one at that, Murdock had done virtually nothing to upkeep Lana'i assets during the previous five years, aside from mortgaging the island for up to $600 million; he had, in sad fact, laid off over 25% of his employees, in a vain attempt to save money.

At least 90,000 building workers have been laid off over the last few months.

I'm in the unfortunate position of witnessing many friends and colleagues laid off over the past year.

Another 80 to 100 workers will be laid off over the next three months, employees have been told.

The Outline laid off six staffers over the summer, months after a $5-million 5-million funding

I've seen older, qualified friends retire before their time and many former classmates and colleagues over 45 laid off in disproportionate numbers.

To get the company back on track, Zynga announced a deep set of cost-cutting measures, including laying off over 100 employees, closing offices, ceasing to renew deals with contractors, shutting down 13 titles, and significantly reducing investment in The Sims-style game The Ville.

With the restructuring, the company eliminated many positions and ended up laying off over a hundred staff members as a consequence.

It's not like people just flooded the streets upon hearing that Bank of America is trying to tack on another surcharge, just after laying off over 30,000 employees, just after widespread manipulation of their loan business was deemed not criminal, by their own accord.