The company said it reduced its work force last year by 7,000 employees, to 83,000, without major layoffs.
After Metricom said it would reduce its work force of 800 by 22percentt, Merrill Lynch included it in a roundup of companies the brokerage firm called "likely to exit".
In June, the company reported a wider loss than it had expected, and announced that it would reduce its work force by 10percentt by the end of the year.
Isis Pharmaceuticals said yesterday that it would reduce its work force 9percenttoto cut costs.
Since 1980, it has reduced its work force to 20,000 from about 83,000.
The company said in June that it would reduce its work force by 23percentt, leaving 451 employees worldwide.
The company, based in Redwood City, Calif., said it would reduce its work force by 30percentt and would explore selling itself.
Horizon Pharmacies Inc. said yesterday that it had reduced its work force by 26percentt, or 260 employees, as part of its plan to cut costs.
Tellabs, based in Naperville, Ill., said that it would reduce its work force by about 800 employees in the United States and about 200 abroad.
Mail-Well, based in Englewood, Colo., said it had reduced its work force by 5percentthis yearas as part of a previously announced plan to cut costs.
