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Oracle Cuts Thousands of Jobs Across Sales, Engineering, Security (theregister.com) 46

Posted by BeauHD from the AI-cash-crunch dept.
bobthesungeek76036 shares a report from the Register: Oracle laid off thousands of employees on Tuesday as it ramps spending on AI infrastructure projects internally and with major technology partners. The layoffs were carried out via email, according to copies of the message viewed by Business Insider. The email told affected workers they would be terminated immediately and to provide a personal email for follow-up.

The cuts echo a TD Cowen forecast earlier this year, when the investment bank questioned how Oracle would finance its expanding AI datacenter buildout and suggested headcount reductions could reach 20,000 to 30,000. It is not clear how many employees were notified on Tuesday, but one screenshot that purports to show the number of internal Slack users showed a drop of 10,000 overnight.

[...] Oracle employs about 162,000 people, with 58,000 of those in the US and approximately 104,000 internationally. If the rumored cuts of 30,000 are correct, it would amount to 18 percent of the company's workforce. According to posts from Oracle workers on LinkedIn, the cuts were spread through multiple departments around the country, with employees in Kansas, Tennessee, and Texas taking to social media to say they were among those chopped. "This news didn't seem to affect stock price," adds bobthesungeek76036. "ORCL is up 6% for the day."
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  • Stop blaming AI (Score:3)

    by jrnvk ( 4197967 ) on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @06:04PM (#66071096)

    These were humans that laid other humans off. End of story.

    • Re:Stop blaming AI (Score:5, Interesting)

      by nedlohs ( 1335013 ) on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @06:24PM (#66071132)

      Oracle has poured money into AI. Into the datacenter side even, you know the side the hyperscalers who don't make a profit selling to the AI model companies who lose money selling the use of their models for less than it costs them to run them so those customers can also lose money.

      It is everything to do with AI. The big silver lining of the whole AI bubble is that it just might destroy Oracle for the good of all mankind.

      This is different than people using say Claude Code - spending $200 to get $2000 worth of compute is probably pretty good for as long as the subsidy chain lasts.

      • that it just might destroy Oracle for the good

        One can hope, but perhaps they'll get a bail out.

        • Only 100+ H1B worker visas requested in 2026 (Score:5, Interesting)

          by will4 ( 7250692 ) on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:57AM (#66071458)

          Oracle has asked for over 100 H1B visas in 2026.

          If they are laying off in the USA, they should be prevented from requesting any H1B or other visas for 4 years for themselves, parent companies, child companies, spin off companies, ....

          • The loophole is they write up listing for positions that require skills that the citizens they are letting go don't have. It's obvious companies abuse the visa system, but guess who really pulls the strings in government.

            • The magic elusive skills way to "never find" a "qualified US worker" needs to be closed for common positions which have thousands of US citizens working.

              Supply and demand

              Company - "It's extremely hard and rare to find a worker with skill XYZ"
              Company - "We cannot find a us citizen with that skill even though we looked for X months"
              Company - "We found a 'qualified' worker 'by chance' just graduating from a US university"
              Company - "To be fair we will pay them at the 50% of the prevailing wage for an entry leve

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by teg ( 97890 )

            Oracle has asked for over 100 H1B visas in 2026.

            If they are laying off in the USA, they should be prevented from requesting any H1B or other visas for 4 years for themselves, parent companies, child companies, spin off companies, ....

            That doesn't make sense, unless there is an overlap in skills. E.g. why should laying off support staff mean that you can't hire AI experts from the rest of the world, to give one example? As long as there are real checks for salary levels- you're not doing this to save money - why should this be a problem at all?

          • 100 H1B's is peanuts in the scheme of things, besides which you get rid of skills you no longer need, that doesn't mean you don't have a shortage in different skills elsewhere.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by GoTeam ( 5042081 )

        The big silver lining of the whole AI bubble is that it just might destroy Oracle for the good of all mankind.

        I'm pretty sure two more shitty companies would take their place.

    • Well, the humans who are doing the laying off are themselves "blaming" AI, so...

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ukoda ( 537183 )
      It is one of AI most compelling use cases and you don't even have to actually use AI. AI is the perfect excuse for humans that laid other humans off while pretending it is not simple cost cutting and downsizing. Sounds better to investors than telling the truth.

    • Re:Stop blaming AI (Score:5, Informative)

      by bloodhawk ( 813939 ) on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @06:39PM (#66071162)
      They aren't blaming AI, they are blaming AI Investment, Oracle is in debt up to their eyeballs and is betting it all on AI.
    • There is a reason for that. And it is most likely that they are rapidly freeing up Capital so they can try their hand at AI bullshit along with everybody else.

      You don't just cut 20% of your staff like it's nothing. Companies are firing employees left and right to free up capital. This is actually by design it's what high interest rates are designed to do.

      If inflation was under control a lot of these layoffs wouldn't be happening because companies would just borrow at low interest rates.
    • Chatbert the evil HR director is actually OpenClaw running on someone's iPad.

      Resistance is futile, you will be hallucinated.

  • In related news ... (Score:4, Funny)

    by PPH ( 736903 ) on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @06:25PM (#66071136)

    ... the America's Cup challenge team remains intact.

    • ... and Larry Ellison still owns his own Hawaiian island... you gotta problem with that?

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        Yeah, actually i do, that means taxes are way, way too low.

        • If you used your connections to people in the CIA to land a CIA contract to build a relational database (stealing IBM's System R design) to spy on the American people and become a billionaire, you'd think differently.
  • ... stopped making sense long before AI ...

  • Next up : Who needs Oracle if you can have AI?

  • Bad stuff happening for Oracle? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Travco ( 1872216 ) on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @08:04PM (#66071262)
    I sure hope so.
    The college I used to work for was defrauded of a fairly large sum of money by Oracle.
    They had purchased our director of IT who recommended a "new product" they had for handling basically all the accounting, grading and assorted other functions that a college could need.
    After something like 2 years of promising "next quarter" they never delivered anything and when Our IT director was fired from the college he was suddenly working for Oracle.

    • Same at the old place I used to work for. Oracle somehow won the bid for an ERP accounting solution and migration work and it's about to go down the same way also. It is going to be a shit-show when they try to migrate from mainframe Lawson software solution. They supposedly are trying to hire an internal developer for account with mainframe and C# skills for Oracle ERP accounting. That is going to be a no-find position and require Oracle contract development hours and a whole team instead.

      The Cyber Se

  • It's up 6%. That's no coincidence. Investors tend to like reduction in expenses. They might not like what follows, if Oracle's AI bets don't pan out.

  • It's not about AI (Score:4, Funny)

    by Tablizer ( 95088 ) on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @10:54PM (#66071356) Journal

    Nobody wants Oracle products & pesky lawyers any more. AI ain't gonna save you. Sayonara

  • Mmm. There's a paradox. Not sure that has a parallel in the history of automation.

    AI Brain Fry [hbr.org]

  • SO no selling, no engineering and no security.. Sounds like a plan for a company.
  • I have a client with a NetSuite deployment that has been in limbo for two years now. Why? Because Oracle keeps replacing the people involved. It was almost finished, but Oracle wants to start over again because they lost all the people who were working on it, so nobody on their side knows what's going on. And it has happened more than once.

    Now, I wouldn't be surprised if the people we were talking to about it last month are now gone themselves. I may recommend they sue Oracle to get their money back.

  • At least back when I worked at Gateway they had a team of henchmen in black suits come around to tell you the news, then stand over you while you emptied your desk before escorting you out of the building. This is so... impersonal.

  • ... if you intend to continue being shitty software supported by shitty service.

  • Sell Sun and Java then (Score:3)

    by greytree ( 7124971 ) on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:07PM (#66072210)
    Hopefully the money-grubbing Oracle cunts will be forced to sell Sun and Java back to people who aren't money-grubbing cunts.

    BTW, is Sam Altman by any chance related to Larry Ellison ?

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