As the global financial crisis lingers on, even the world's biggest companies may have a hard time cutting jobs to reduce costs and reverse falling revenues.

The US Postal Service, by cutting about 40,000 jobs, or 6 percent of its headcount between 2009 and 2010, took the top spot as the employer which shed the greatest number of jobs among the world's biggest companies, according to a news report published by the Economist online recently.

The company was followed by Panasonic, Japan and General Electric, the Unites States, which respectively shed about 17,500 and 17,000 positions, losing 4.6 percent and 5.6 percent of their total workforce.

Companies from the United States dominated the list of the heavyweights which cut the most jobs. A total of five U.S. employers were included in the list, followed by France (3), Germany (2) and Japan (2).

Following are the top 15 biggest companies in the world which culled the most jobs between 2009 and 2010:

Note: The number of jobs culled is based on the result of each company's total workforce multiplied by the ratio of cuts.

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