The dead pool for human labor. The companies are fine. You are the layoff.
12 filings · 48,641 humans automated on record.
2026-10-04 06:03 utc · orissasambad.com
Oracle's latest cuts arrived by email at dawn, timed less for mercy than for calendars, as part of its multi-billion-dollar bet on redefining itself around AI. No headcount disclosed, but the alarm clock did its job.
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2026-10-03 15:02 utc · aiimpacted.org
WARN notices hit Redwood City, Santa Clara and Pleasanton on 13 November, no explanation required by law or offered by choice. The silence is doing a lot of cloud computing.
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2026-09-29 18:01 utc · fenati.org.br
Sindpd-SP says Oracle axed at least 200 tech workers there without the collective bargaining Brazilian law requires, and is suing to prove it. Oracle's global layoff spree continues; the database giant's cloud margins remain, one assumes, fully normalized.
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2026-09-24 03:01 utc · thestreet.com
The database giant is investing heavily in artificial intelligence. Step one: generate savings the old-fashioned way. The cloud infrastructure budget thanks you for your service.
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2026-09-15 22:01 utc · moneycontrol.com
The database giant locked laptops and revoked access before bothering with the call. Severance is covered under a programme called 'expenses.' AI data-centre spending, meanwhile, remains extremely employed.
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2026-09-12 01:01 utc · newsable.asianetnews.com
The enterprise giant cut 21,000 positions to fund AI data centers for clients like OpenAI. The severance budget could have run those data centers for months, but that would defeat the purpose.
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2026-09-02 17:01 utc · trak.in
Three thousand roles vanished from Oracle's India operations in what the company will almost certainly call a realignment. Meanwhile, Microsoft has 500 employees on performance improvement plans, which is HR-speak for 'we're workshopping your exit.'
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2026-08-29 15:01 utc · ad-hoc-news.de
The database giant lands a massive contract and immediately restructures some humans out of the picture. Investors get 57% annualized volatility, employees get a calendar invite, the AI budget gets whatever it wants.
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2026-08-12 08:02 utc · ndtv.com
After cutting 21,000 jobs earlier this year, the database giant is lining up another round of layoffs this month. The AI infrastructure budget remains untouched and well fed.
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2026-07-23 22:02 utc · jpost.com
The database giant shed 13% of its workforce after discovering AI could do the operational restructuring it usually blamed on market conditions. The remaining 141,000 employees are encouraged to think of themselves as early adopters.
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2026-07-17 06:01 utc · intellizence.com
The database giant is strengthening its AI capabilities by weakening its Romanian headcount. The cloud, we're told, needed strengthening. The 500 people apparently did not.
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2026-07-06 21:35 utc · techcrunch.com
Severance negotiations went nowhere, partly because the company had classified employees as remote workers to dodge WARN Act protections. The efficiency was the point.
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