#layoffs

Tracking participants count #general Slack channel in Oracle One workspace, as the fastest available proxy indication of ongoing layoffs.

• mar01-mar31: 12446 layoffs, and 844 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• feb01-feb28: 943 layoffs, and 1143 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• jan01-jan31: 1604 layoffs, and 1834 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• dec01-dec31: 1031 layoffs, and 844 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• nov01-nov30: 1614 layoffs, and 1327 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• oct01-oct31: 2504 layoffs, 1762 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• sep02-sep30: 6275 layoffs, 861 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• aug14-sep01: 733 layoffs (based on Slack very few data points)
• aug01-aug14: ?2900 layoffs in IDC (based on media reports)

Regions outside IDC and NA usually have a significant delay when laid off people are disconnected from Slack (e.g. 1 month in Pacific regions, perhaps longer in some EU countries), so this is a floor estimate with additions reflected immediately, but reductions lagging behind on average.

What is called "layoff estimates" are partially part of normal attrition, limitations are covered in details in comments.

I will post daily in comments on the count change and running current month total while this post is still on the first page.

Tech bosses say AI will make us work less. So far, that's mostly meant fewer of us will be working for them full-time in the long run. So be distrustful of anything you hear from leadership.

again during the night another 1k dropped on slack , maybe its late accounts disabling , about 13k + since the last week .

I just joined at a Randstad/Cella consultant just a week ago and was told yesterday that they will be cutting some of their staff. Is there any truth to this? I wasn't sure if this is normal or not but I just got here.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals will cut 125 jobs. These layoffs affect employees across Providence. It will combine its three Rhode Island buildings. The job cuts become effective on August 5. Affected individuals will receive severance and career support.

Providence, Rhode Island

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/business/2025/06/10/vertex-pharmaceuticals-lays-off-125-ri-based-workers-after-failed-diabetes-trial/84133343007/

Starbucks announced plans for store closures and layoffs. Approximately 900 non-retail positions will be eliminated. An undetermined number of North American stores will close. The company aims to improve financial performance and customer experience. Affected employees will receive severance and support packages.

https://patch.com/rhode-island/across-ri/starbucks-plans-store-closures-layoffs-what-know-ri

Northeast Transportation Services LLC plans to close its Pawtucket facility. This closure will affect 52 employees. The company filed a WARN notice with Rhode Island officials. Operations are scheduled to cease on May 9, 2026. A past labor dispute significantly impacted the company's business.

Pawtucket, Rhode Island

https://whatnow.com/news/trending/rhode-island-based-transportation-firm-closing-52-workers-affected/

Rhode Island's public media entity will not lay off employees. Enough workers accepted voluntary buyouts to close a budget gap. The organization faced a $1.1 million deficit from eliminated federal funding. This funding loss was part of a federal rescission package. Ocean State Media is the new name for the merged RI PBS and The Public's Radio.

Providence, Rhode Island

https://rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/09/18/ri-pbs-the-publics-radio-avoid-layoffs-despite-federal-defunding/

Stellantis provided updates on the Belvidere Assembly Plant status. The plant's reopening is now scheduled for June 2028. Stellantis approved $10 million for equipment assessments and electrical substations. Approximately 1,450 members remain on layoff status corporate-wide. The Supplemental Unemployment Benefits fund is currently $702.2 million.

Belvidere, Ill.

https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/layoffs-delays-and-slow-progress-whats-next-for-belvidere-assembly-workers/

Allied Group LLC will lay off 154 employees. This was reported to the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training. The company offers fulfillment services. It supports life science and biotech companies. Employee separations are scheduled to begin on May 25.

Rhode Island

https://turnto10.com/news/local/allied-group-llc-to-layoff-over-150-employees-in-rhode-island

Say what you want, but I like that we got a heads-up about these cuts, even if it caused weeks (months) of stress. I got lucky and am still here, but if I had been affected, at least I would’ve been ready. If it had been a sudden announcement, I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t have been the case.

Panera Bread is implementing a new transformation strategy called "Panera RISE." This plan involves closing several regional Fresh Dough Facilities. The company is shifting to third-party artisan bakers for dough production. These closures have resulted in 399 employee layoffs across four states. Panera aims to improve profitability and drive sales growth with this restructuring.

https://www.thestreet.com/restaurants/40-year-old-fast-casual-restaurant-chain-panera-bread-lays-off-100s

Oracle just laid off 25,000 employees on yesterday due to AI spending constraints.

They are looking at 30,000 total this round.

Total Technology layoffs 33,302 year-to-date.

Higher Energy prices will lead to a potential Major Recession by 2027.

Novo Nordisk announced a workforce reduction. Approximately 400 positions will be cut at its Bloomington site. These layoffs are scheduled for early May. The company stated it remains committed to the site. Local officials are working to support affected employees.

Bloomington, Indiana

https://fox59.com/news/indynews/400-jobs-cut-in-bloomington-amongst-novo-nordisk-layoffs/

Just wondering if they are finished with the laid offs? I haven’t heard anything in my work area for the last few days. Thanks.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District is preparing for a year of significant transition. The district faces ongoing budget challenges and rising operating costs. These financial difficulties will result in layoffs for some district staff. Central office, teaching, and other school-based employees are expected to be impacted. CMSD projects a nearly $50 million deficit by 2029.

Cleveland, Ohio

https://signalcleveland.org/cmsd-leaders-offer-updates-on-the-plans-for-school-mergers/

Oracle is laying off 491 employees in Washington state. These cuts affect workers in Seattle offices and remote staff. The layoffs take effect on June 1. This reduction is part of broader company job cuts. AI-driven efficiencies and funding new data centers contribute to the decision.

Seattle, Washington

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/oracle-cuts-491-jobs-in-washington-state-as-it-embraces-ai-led-engineering/

Meta announced layoffs impacting 168 employees in Washington state. These reductions are part of a broader workforce cut across the U.S. The affected roles include engineering, product management, and recruiting positions. Many impacted jobs were within the Reality Labs division. The layoffs are scheduled to commence on May 8.

Seattle, Washington

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/latest-meta-layoffs-target-168-employees-in-washington-state/

Astemo Americas is closing its Tallapoosa plant. This action will result in 60 layoffs. These job cuts are scheduled for April. A principal customer terminated its contract. The contract involved four vehicle model parts.

Tallapoosa, Georgia

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2026/03/30/astemo-americas-inc-closes-layoffs.html

Several financial firms announced layoffs in New Jersey during March. These cuts total 409 positions across multiple companies. Prudential Financial, Fiserv Solutions, UBS, and JPMorgan Chase were impacted. These layoffs contribute to a broader surge of job cuts nationwide. The state has recorded 4,715 total job cuts in 2026 so far.

New Jersey

https://njbiz.com/major-financial-firms-cut-409-nj-jobs-march-2026/

Pixelberry Studios reportedly reduced its workforce. This marks the second workforce reduction in two years. Some staff members reported this as their third reduction. Series Entertainment owns the studio. The total number of job losses is unconfirmed.

https://www.pocketgamer.biz/pixelberry-studios-reportedly-lays-off-staff-in-another-round-of-workforce-reductions/

More disgraceful and disgusting behaviour by this company.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-11/telstra-axes-600-roles-in-redundancy-round-outsourcing-to-india/106331708

After the telco confirmed 209 jobs would be slashed from its AI joint venture with Accenture, Telstra workers said they had also been notified of more than 400 other potential job losses.

The total scale of the cuts was outlined in an email sent to staff on Tuesday at 4:49pm AEDT, in which CEO Vicki Brady detailed proposed changes to the telco's Telstra Enterprise and Telstra Consumer divisions.

When is next round planned and how big will it be

SAP is under a lot of financial pressure and the only way to fix this is by mass layoffs. Basically, we are investing too much in stock buybacks, AI (data centers and development) and bonuses. The executive board wants to axe the last one and increased the first two. So the only solution is layoffs. Oracle fired 20000 people yesterday and SAP is supposed to follow suit to "remain at a competitive advantage". The new works council is already in negotiations regarding this. SAP wants 12000 layoffs worldwide of which 5000 will be in European hubs. But this is kept hush hush. I feel like speaking out because I am tired of these bull$hit games. The biggest problem here is middle management and executives who want more bonuses for themselves and want to use third party contractors instead of full-time employees. They are the ones pushing for the layoffs. So don't listen to your area executives when they say that times are rough. If SAP didn't insist on share buybacks or invest too much in AI that is not producing any results for customers, we would not have such a deficit. This narrative needs to be fixed. I am tired of our CEO, CFO, executives and middle management saying that employee salaries and bonuses are the third highest expense for SAP. That is a good thing and not a bad thing. Employees create and sell good software not AI. Some of the managers pushing for this already have salaries of more than €200000 per year and still want more. Say no to layoffs. Talk back to your manager if they want to give you a bad rating. If you have done the work, you should get good performance ratings. They want to use bad performance ratings to fire employees or pay them less.

It does seem like, on average, older more experienced people were laid off. Anyone else notice this? Our group is half gone, and it's ALL the older folks - I'm not talking really old, just over 40.

I noticed my slack errored out 2 or 3 times and gave a glitchy alphanumeric coded white screen the day before the axe came down. I wondered if the system was doing a dry run and if anyone else noticed the same thing? First time it ever did that and today it wouldn't open at all.

Layoffs started last week and this week at Greensboro. Good Luck everyone, No one is safe

Largely because unlike cold blooded Safra and Clay, Chuck and Jettu are ultimately cowards. It takes a special kind of spine to make massive decisions like these. Cisco will keep the drip drip of San Jose only layoffs at a rate that essentially is cover for lack of making tough decisions. I worked at both Oracle and Cisco and say what you will about either company but Oracle will invest their last dollar into a few bets even if nobody believes them. Right now, their bet is AI Infra. Before that, it was OCI. Cisco will always peanut butter - both investments and layoffs because leadership is utterly incompetent to make hard choices.

After 20+ years at Oracle, no one is exempt from cuts. Realistically, they’re doing many a favor. The company is bloated at 160K employees—I’ve long said it could shed 50K with zero impact. Next should be VPs, directors, accountants, and especially lawyers. I applaud the move, but it could have gone much deeper.

The hits keep coming...

https://dallasexpress.com/business-markets/att-wins-146-million-federal-contract-then-lays-off-americans-and-hires-foreign-workers/

Is it true that people who didn't take the VSP were still laid off effective 4/1 with no lump sum or benefits?

Read the email Oracle is sending to laid-off employees
https://www.businessinsider.com/read-oracle-layoff-email-employees-job-cuts-2026-3

Oracle started laying off staff on Tuesday as the company seeks to cut costs.

Employees started receiving notifications early Tuesday. The cuts appear to have affected employees globally, but the full extent of the layoffs could not be immediately learned.

"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," copies of the notification email viewed by Business Insider stated. "As a result, today is your last working day."

An Oracle spokesperson declined to comment on the layoffs.

The cuts are the latest example of Big Tech companies reducing head count. In January, Amazon said it would slash about 16,000 corporate roles, months after cutting 14,000 employees. Last week, Meta began laying off hundreds of employees, following several years of cuts that resulted in thousands of roles being axed.

They told you you're laid off because of AI, but they didn't tell you their definition of AI = Actually Indians

For every American laid off and on boarding H1Bs at the same time.

Every H1B visa holder and Green card petitioner's visa and applications need to be cancelled immediately.

If not for yourself, this needs to be the done for the younger unemployed or recently graduated americans. Enough of this sh-t.

After the cluster fu-k of the POD model rollout and people assignment over the last few moths, linked into the UKI time tracking switch and PODs looking into billing costs, people aligned to the PODs are being told they can no longer book time to those WBS codes and to find one elsewhere… I know of at least 5 people this has happened too today, leads me to think the WFR bus is starting its engine again

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm296jzzl9yo

I have nothing lined up on the outside, but it's such a relief.

Good luck to you all. Find something else and run.

Advice from someone who has been through all of this:

If you haven't seen your peers disappear before you should expect various emotions, but the more important to remember is that your days are also numbered. You might last 12 month, perhaps 12 years, but the day will come and you will go through all of this nonsense (unless you found something better before). Plan accordingly. Denial or kicking the problem down the road does not help you. There is no medal or reward for loyalty or dedication. You are an expendable resource, much like a computer system. While they might like you, you too will be replaced when it makes economic sense to them and their bigger picture. It doesn't need to make sense to you and it can defy your logic. Use your time to improve and enrich yourself, just as the company does for itself. No-one else will do it for you.

Good luck.