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Oracle cuts thousands in largest-ever layoffs via 6AM email
Oracle sent a 6AM email saying roles were eliminated effective immediately, cutting about 10,000 so far with estimates up to 30,000, and asking employees to sign DocuSign paperwork and provide a personal email before access to systems was turned off.
Apr 3rd 2026 · United States
Insights
- Oracle sent a 6AM March 31 email telling employees their roles were eliminated and that today was their last working day.
- About 10,000 employees are believed cut so far, with estimates up to 20,000 to 30,000, roughly 18% of Oracle's 162,000 workforce.
- Severance was contingent on signing termination paperwork via DocuSign and employees were asked to submit a personal email before company systems were deactivated.
- The layoffs affected senior engineers, architects, operations leaders, program managers and teams across Cloud, Health, NetSuite, Sales and Customer Success, and were reported not to be performance-based.
- Oracle has taken on $58 billion in new debt to build AI data centers while its stock has fallen sharply, and the company declined to comment.
Sources
- Corporate recruiter on what laid off staff of Amazon, Meta and Oracle failed to realise timesofindia.indiatimes.com
- Oracle cutting thousands of jobs in round of layoffs – CNBC www.siliconrepublic.com
- What's next for Meta in the wake of trial losses and layoffs? www.npr.org
- Reason the 6am email from 'Oracle leadership' told thousands of laid-off employees timesofindia.indiatimes.com