Naveen Selvaraj submits:
I guess anybody following the US stock markets on a weekly basis would know how keenly the jobless claims and other employment-related metrics are tracked.
With this mind, I collated the headcount data for around 168 Tech stocks from data available on the Gridstone Platform (of the 400 Tech stocks, 168 had headcount data for 2008 and 2009) and the numbers are pretty interesting. Remember that the data is based on the headcount figures provided in company filings (10-K typically) and so are accurate.