AOL laid off more than 450 employees at its corporate headquarters Wednesday as part of plans announced earlier this year to cut costs and change the company's business strategy.

The Dulles company said it was not cutting as many jobs locally as originally anticipated. In August, AOL executives said that about 1,000 of the 5,000 jobs to be cut worldwide would be local. Including Wednesday's cuts, AOL has eliminated fewer than 600 positions in Northern Virginia.

"In August, we were making a preliminary estimate based on very early information about how the company's new strategy would affect our structure," said Andrew Weinstein, a spokesman for the company. "When we worked through the implications of the new structure, we found there were fewer jobs on the Virginia campus that were impacted than expected."