Oracle layoffs: Employees receive ‘6am job cuts’ email from Oracle leadership again
Oracle initiated another round of layoffs on September 14, with affected employees experiencing federated logins and Slack sessions failing before receiving a 6am email notifying them of their job elimination. The cuts, which were anticipated since mid-August, impacted various departments including OCI security, Fusion, and Oracle Health, and notably, performance ratings did not protect employees from being laid off.
Why it matters
This event highlights ongoing instability in the tech job market, particularly within large corporations like Oracle, and raises questions about job security and the impact of corporate restructuring on employees.
Oracle began cutting jobs again on September 14, and the people affected found out in almost exactly the sequence they did in March. Federated logins stopped working at around 4am Eastern. Slack sessions dropped out in a rolling wave between 5am and 5.30am. Badges failed at office gates. Then, at 6am local time, an email from "Oracle Leadership" arrived, according to three impacted employees and a copy of the notification seen by Business Insider, carrying the line staff had been bracing for since August: "We are sharing some difficult news regarding your position." The role had been eliminated as part of a broader organisational change, and the same day was the last working day.The round had been expected since mid-August, when managers were asked to submit lists of employees whose jobs were going, with payroll to come down early in Oracle's second fiscal quarter. Oracle has not commented.
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