Xerox CEO: Get Me 3,000 Copies of This Pink Slip, Pronto

The worsening econalypse is inspiring worker reductions and other cost-cutting moves across the tech industry. The latest company to take a hatchet to its operating costs: Xerox (XRX), which plans to sack five percent of its workforce, or about 3,000 jobs, in an effort to cope with an “unpredictable economy.”

We’re assuming more of the same … deterioration in the economic markets,” Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy said on a conference call with analysts. “That’s why we’re being so aggressive in terms of the cost reductions, so we can be assured of delivering the earnings growth that we expect in 2009.”

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