Who's getting laid off now?

The U.S. is recovering from the worst recession since the Great Depression, right? The stock market is surging, correct? Companies are planning for their next great year. Is that true?

But IT workers are still feeling the heat. The unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent last month, and the technology sector is still feeling the pain. CIOZone recently put together all the recent layoffs in the IT sector, and it's not a pretty picture. Sure, everyone needs IT, but how much? And when will the urge for IT talent translate into new jobs?

Here are some of the layoffs outlined:

* Sprint Nextel is planning to cut 2,500 jobs by the end of the year. While Sprint says the layoffs won't affect customer service, they did not say how many would specifically be IT jobs. We're pretty sure a chunk of them will be.

* One that very specifically affects IT is Adobe, which is planning to cut 680 workers from its staff of 7,000. Adobe recently acquired web analytics company Omniture for $1.8 billion. But Adobe says none of the current layoffs are related to that purchase.

* Earlier this month, Microsoft said it was laying off another 800 workers after previously giving pink slips to 5,000 employees. One of the casualties was high-profile executive Don Doge, director of business development for the emerging business team. Doge blogged on his Website that the layoff was "a total surprise to me, and management offered no explanation. This is pretty standard procedure, mostly for legal reasons, but nonetheless, left me with a cold feeling...but only for a minute or two."

For more on IT layoffs:
- see this CIOZone article

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