The 17 Biggest Mass Layoff Announcements Of The Past Year

This week Zynga shuttered three offices, leaving 520 employees at the gaming company out of a job.

Even though the job market has slowly been improving, layoffs are still a perennial fear in this economy.

And some companies have announced massive job cuts as they try and cut costs. These big cuts have weighed on employment figures for the past year.

We looked at Bloomberg data to highlight the 17 biggest layoff announcements in the past year.

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