Oracle employees are facing another major round of job cuts.
This comes less than six months after the technology giant began eliminating positions across several parts of the country.
The first wave surfaced at the end of March, when workers began receiving notices that their roles were being eliminated.
Numbers tallied from several state WARN filings later confirmed more than 1,700 job losses across California, Missouri, and Washington.
Many of those separations took effect between late May and early June.
Now, a second round is taking shape.
New WARN filings dated Sept. 14 show that about 800 Oracle employees in Washington and California are slated to lose their jobs on Nov. 13, providing the clearest official count so far for the latest cuts.
The filings impact 359 workers in Washington, including employees at Oracle’s Seattle facilities and remote workers across the state.
Oracle said the layoffs are expected to be permanent and that the Seattle locations are not closing.
Another 441 jobs are being eliminated in California, including:
- 279 in Redwood City
- 99 in Santa Clara
- 63 in Pleasanton
Including these recent cuts, WARN notices reviewed by TheStreet document at least 2,578 Oracle job cuts in the U.S. so far in 2026.
The tally reflects publicly disclosed state WARN notices and should not be treated as a total for all Oracle layoffs globally.
|
WARN round |
Location |
Employees affected |
|
First round |
Washington |
475 |
|
First round |
California |
702 |
|
First round |
Missouri |
539 |
|
First round |
New York |
62 |
|
September round |
Washington |
359 |
|
September round |
California |
441 |
|
Total documented in WARN notices |
U.S. |
2,578 |
In September, Business Insider reported that Oracle had asked managers to prepare lists of employees who could be affected by another round of layoffs.
Internal documents reviewed by the outlet indicated that some teams could face double-digit percentage reductions as the company looked to lower payroll costs.
Oracle workforce shrinks as restructuring costs rise
The latest cuts come after a sharp drop in Oracle’s overall workforce.
Oracle employed approximately 141,000 full-time workers as of May 31, 2026, down from roughly 162,000 a year earlier, according to the company’s annual filings.
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That represents a decline of about 21,000 employees. But this figure includes attrition and other workforce changes, so it cannot be treated as a layoff total.
Oracle also recorded about $1.8 billion in restructuring and related costs during fiscal 2026, including employee severance and contract termination expenses.
Oracle’s first layoff round affected more than 1,700 U.S. workers
Oracle’s first major round of cuts began in late March.
In Washington, 475 workers were notified by March 31 that their employment would end on June 1.
Missouri was also heavily affected.
Oracle notified workers at its Kansas City campus between March 27 and March 31, with 539 employees included in the WARN filing and separations beginning May 26.
California filings added hundreds more.
Oracle’s Pleasanton campus was among the locations affected, with workers notified by March 31 and separations scheduled for June 1.
Similar notices were filed for facilities in Santa Clara and Redwood Shores.
A separate New York WARN notice later documented another 62 Oracle layoffs in Valhalla, bringing the publicly documented first-round total across the four states to 1,778 workers.
Many of the positions listed in the filings were technical roles, including software developers, software development directors, product managers, and program managers.
TheStreet previously reported on Oracle’s first round of cuts in April, when layoffs were beginning to surface across the country.
Oracle pours billions into AI infrastructure
The cuts are unfolding as Oracle makes one of the largest infrastructure investments in its history.
Oracle spent roughly $28.5 billion on capital expenditures in its fiscal first quarter, compared with $8.5 billion a year earlier.
The company expects capital expenditures of $90 billion to $95 billion in fiscal 2027 as it expands data-center capacity to meet rising demand from cloud and artificial-intelligence customers.
Oracle’s revenue reached $19.3 billion in the first quarter, up 30% from a year earlier, while cloud infrastructure revenue jumped 121% to $7.4 billion.
Its remaining performance obligations, a measure of contracted revenue backlog, climbed to $664 billion after Oracle booked more than $30 billion in additional AI cloud contracts during the quarter.
But the infrastructure buildout is also consuming significant amounts of cash.
Oracle generated $23.1 billion in operating cash flow during the quarter while incurring approximately $28.5 billion in capital expenditures, resulting in negative free cash flow of around $5 billion.
Executives have said some future infrastructure spending could increasingly be supported by customer prepayments and other financing arrangements.
Big Tech cuts jobs while AI spending climbs
Oracle is not the only major technology company cutting jobs while committing huge sums to artificial intelligence.
Meta carried out thousands of layoffs earlier this year as CEO Mark Zuckerberg reorganized parts of the company around AI and sought to manage rising infrastructure costs.
Amazon also cut thousands of corporate jobs while increasing spending on AI infrastructure and cloud capacity.
The company eliminated about 16,000 positions earlier this year while outlining roughly $200 billion in planned capital spending.
Across Big Tech, the pattern is becoming increasingly visible: Companies are spending heavily to build AI infrastructure while simultaneously reassessing payroll, management layers, and the types of jobs they expect to need.
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