Oracle announces new round of layoffs in early-morning email: ‘Today is your last working day’
By Aidin Vaziri, Staff WriterSep 14, 2026
Oracle’s Larry Ellison delivers the keynote at AI World. Oracle has begun another round of layoffs, according to Business Insider. The cuts come as the company’s AI cloud business is growing rapidly — and as Oracle spends billions building the infrastructure to support it.
Oracle has begun another round of layoffs, cutting employees as the software giant spends heavily to expand the data centers that power its fast-growing artificial intelligence business.
Business Insider reported Monday that Oracle employees began receiving layoff notices at 6 a.m. telling them they had been let go as part of a broader organizational change.
“After careful consideration of Oracle’s current business needs, we have made the decision to eliminate your role as part of a broader organizational change,” a copy of the email shared with the outlet said. “As a result, today is your last working day.”
The total number of workers affected was not immediately clear. Oracle has not publicly commented on the layoffs.
“One of thousands that got the boot this AM. But they muffed it,” Yurie Rich, a vice president at Oracle based in Seattle, wrote in a LinkedIn post Monday. “Sent an e-mail to my corporate account that I can no longer access. Nothing to my personal account. Only way I know is that I can no longer access any of my corporate resources. So apparently, don’t even get the courtesy of an e-mail.”
Barry Hickson, a director of product development, corroborated that report in a separate LinkedIn post.
“I too was laid off today (just shy of 29 years),” Hickson wrote. “Can’t believe they cut access before one could receive the email notification to corp acct. I had the courtesy of a heads up before today from my boss but as many layoffs as they’ve done, you’d think they could execute the simple logical steps better.”
The cuts add to a year of significant workforce reductions at Oracle, which was long based in Redwood Shores before moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas. The company reported about 141,000 full-time employees as of May 31, down from about 162,000 a year earlier, according to its latest annual filing.
That decline of about 21,000 workers came as Oracle has been spending aggressively to build the infrastructure used by AI systems.
Business Insider reported last month that some teams faced planned cuts reaching double-digit percentages.
Oracle is offering laid-off U.S. employees four weeks of severance plus one additional week for each year of service.
The latest cuts come just days after Oracle reported strong quarterly results driven by cloud demand.
The tech giant said Thursday that revenue from its cloud infrastructure business jumped 121% to $7.4 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2027. The company reported $6.7 billion in operating income, up 57%, and said it now expects total revenue of at least $90 billion for the fiscal year.
Sep 14, 2026
Aidin Vaziri Staff Writer
Aidin Vaziri is a staff writer and pop music critic at the San Francisco Chronicle. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, National Geographic and MTV.
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