Again, please go to earlier in the thread and actually read the example, then increase it by many many more companies.Here's a graph showing how not better things are getting:
Nope, not getting better at all.
And again. This isn't a sign of good, look elsewhere.
Here, I'll find it for ya:
I've already explained how this isn't much of a "good" indicator at all.
Let's say I had a company that laid off 20% (100 employees total, I lay off 20, 80 left) of its workers at the beginning of the downturn. As it continued I laid off another 10% (now only 8, 72 employees left now) and started cutting into the meat... I was able to squeak out a bit more productivity from my employees and now was able to lay off 5% more and get a hope for a bit of a profit just last month... (that's 3 more if you're doing the math I now have 69 employees), it isn't because the economy is getting better that I am laying off less people.
Less people losing their jobs is not an indicator of a powerfully good change in the economy.
The company in my example (and in reality many companies today) started off laying off many more than they are now, but continued layoffs, although smaller in number, are not a sign of good things for the company. The company went from laying off 20 to 3... Yeah, the number is smaller, but the outlook isn't good.