Larry Ellison's Oracle lays off up to 30,000 staff with 6am email [View all]

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/oracle-layoff-ai-data-centre-b2950165.html

Oracle lays off up to 30,000 staff with 6am email
Laid off workers were informed of their job status in early morning email
Vishwam Sankaran
Wednesday 01 April 2026 10:31 EDT

Tech giant Oracle has laid off thousands of its workforce in massive job cuts that could reportedly impact 30,000 employees globally amid the company’s push to fund more artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Employees in the U.S., India, Canada, Mexico, and other countries began receiving job termination emails from “Oracle Leadership” at about 6 am local time Tuesday, sparking what could be the largest layoff in the company’s history, Business Insider first reported.

About 12,000 of the company’s employees in India have been laid off, according to local news reports.

Oracle’s termination emails to its laid-off staff cited “broader organisational change” in what is widely seen as a reference to the tech giant’s recent push to build more AI data centres.

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