Accountants EY immediately made 251 of the 750-strong workforce redundant.
Lucas Aerospace, a major designer and manufacturer of combat aircraft and missile systems, planned to close a number of factories and make 20% of its 18,000-strong workforce redundant.
The CBC will no longer produce documentaries, it will cut local newscasts, close half its offices, and make 25% of its workforce redundant by 2020.
Twitter is making up to 336 employees, or about 8% of its global workforce, redundant in the first major move since co-founder Jack Dorsey was named chief executive.
Earlier this month Leeds city council announced it was to make around 650 of its 33,000-strong workforce redundant, blaming a loss in its income and lower government grants.
Entertainment Rights made a third of its workforce redundant and installed a new management team before Christmas but said its cost-cutting and new strategy would not benefit trading until March.
Blackberry this month revealed that it would make half its workforce redundant by the end of the year, after losses of $950m £588mm) in the second quarter.
He commented that he had been forced to make 10% of his workforce redundant after being told by PwC – the company handling Carillion's liquidation – that he would only be paid for work that Flora-tec had done since the contractor folded, estimating it would lose out on 10% of its annual turnover.
Luvo, which was designed using IBM Watson technology, can understand and learn from human interactions, ultimately making the flesh-and-blood workforce redundant.
