It pays to make friends in people in HR and facilities with Oracle. I've been able to triangulate what is happening, on what appears to be a global scale. At months end (Q3) March 1st 2018 and then the final blow June 1st 2018 as Oracle offices close. Oracle has been extremely quiet on all the layoffs, no comments and no public announcements other than the 10Q where they raised 1.1 billion dollars in severance packages to be paid out by June 1st 2018.
This information is from first hand conversation from people who should know, people in HR and facilities. It is rumor, as they are not high enough in the org to qualify as confirmation, but its also hard not to notice your entire office space being shut down. Not everyone who will be let go over the next 3 to 4 months will be getting a severance package. There is a warn notice that requires notifications if layoffs or terminations are greater than a certain threshold and this varies state by state. The layoffs have been staggered over a year so as to not trip a warn notification unless necessary. There will be a warn notice sent out for June 1st for many states in the US. I do not know the laws for other countries but the whole sale change out of sales to Oracle digital is happening. Product changes are underway. Oracle is about to shut down a great deal of legacy products and go towards a model of skeleton crew support for existing customers. Changes begin March 1st 2018. The warn notices 60 days prior to June 1st will be sent our ironically on April 1st 2018. It would qualify as the worlds most tasteless April fools joke, if it were not real.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notification_Act_of_1988
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a US labor law which protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide 60 calendar-day advance notification of plant closings and mass layoffs of employees, as defined in the Act
Oracle has not provided notice yet:
http://www.twc.state.tx.us/businesses/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-warn-notices
http://www.twc.state.tx.us/files/news/warn-act-listings-2018.xlsx
What is interesting is that facilities will be closing as well. The number of employees at various office locations have been steadily dropping. Oracle is checkingthe badge counts for people who actually go into the offices, and its way down in certain locations. Shrinkage has already occured as Oracle has closed off certain parts or floors in the buildings they occupy. Now entire Oracle offices will be shutting down. In many cases jobs will litterally be moving to new hubs. For example many people not getting a severance package will be required to move (no expenses paid) to a new city. This is expected to reduce the number of severance packages necessary as people leave voluntarily.
In Texas the new Austin campus will actually force the close of the Frisco office, and perhaps the Irving office in DFW as sales and other jobs litterally move to the new OD campus in Austin. The Austin Oracle Digital Hub is to be completed in March 2018. Texas is an at-will employment state and does not have the "Implied contract" or "covenant of good faith" exception. Oracle can simply terminate the position and the employee with out notice or reason and not pay severance. Texas does have a public policy exception, menaning that you canot be terminated for filing a workers comp claim, for example. Short of that Oracle does not need to follow any rule other than a warn notification. The first push is to close offices in Dallas and force a migration to Austin in March. This should cause a good deal of natural attrition.
From what I understand what is happening in Dallas is happening globally. My counterparts in colorado speak of offcies that are now ghost towns.
Below is a sort of memorial to the fallen, as name plates of managers that got laid off decorate a cube. Its viceral you can feel it everywhere inside Oracle. It will be even more palabale as facilities close.
https://i.imgur.com/C832QvP.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
At-will employment is a term used in U.S. labor law for contractual relationships in which an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any reason (that is, without having to establish "just cause" for termination), and without warning. When an employee is acknowledged as being hired "at will," courts deny the employee any claim for loss resulting from the dismissal. The rule is justified by its proponents on the basis that an employee may be similarly entitled to leave his or her job without reason or warning. In contrast, the practice is seen as unjust by those who view the employment relationship as characterized by inequality of bargaining power.
Here is a good breakdown on at-will employment laws and exceptions by state:
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2001/01/art1full.pdf
All the hubs for "Class of" are going live. This marks the full roll out of the strategy put in place by MH back in 2013 to replace high salaried workers with lower salaried less experienced workers. The genius of the plan is that a recent college grad is cheaper than the current employee in every corner of the world regardless of the wage descrepancies between nations. All you have to do is offer a clss of program and create a digital hub presense in every country. That is exactly waht Oracle has been doing over the past several years.
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/joinclassof/index.html
Job opening and qualifications. Basically any college grad with no experience qualifies.
Sales and Business Development Rep - Class Of-17000ZYV
Preferred Qualifications:
• BS or BA degree with a GPA of 3.2 or higher preferred
• 0-2 years work experience
• Able to demonstrate time management, basic telesales skills, knowledge of Oracle products and services (training provided)
• Goal oriented individual with superior communication skills
• Able to complete individual goals as well as work in a team environment
• Demonstrated ability to communicate using technical concepts
• Working knowledge of Oracle products a plus but not necessary
• Professional demeanor
• Desire for a long-term career in sales
• Able to demonstrate critical thinking skills to acquire a higher level understanding of role, processes, and procedures
The class of program and the Oracle digital hubs are global with key hubs in California, Texas and Colorado. I dont know all the locations, and its not exactly easy to find them. I know they are in 6 of the 7 contents, there is no OD hub in antartica, but everything else is covered. Its quite amazing.
Here is a small listing I was able to google for with in a few minutes. The list is by no means comprehensive. The importantthingto realize is that Oracle has "pivoted" and the employees (not recent college grads) are about to feel it in a big way.
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/join-oracle-direct-lad/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/digitalselling/index.html
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/oracle-digital-hub-will-help-lift-smes-to-cloud/news-story/20a3baea3fd75ef7acc912aea6ad017e
https://www.oracle.com/in/corporate/pressrelease/smb-access-cloud-solutions-in-new-oracle-digital-hub-india-20170707.html
http://www.intelligentcio.com/me/2017/01/23/oracle-announces-opening-of-digital-hub-and-first-regional-data-centre/
Just a small listing of the new APAC digital hubs:
Australia and New Zealand
ASEAN
Malaysia:
Kuala Lumpur
Hong Kong
India:
Bengaluru
Delhi-NCR
Mumbai
Korea
SEOUL