Oracle, Salesforce announce massive layoffs in US as tech job cuts deepen. Check worst-hit department

As the tech layoffs deepen, Oracle announced plans to cut hundreds of jobs across its Bay Area footprint. The company is reportedly laying of thousands of employees across various regions in its latest rounds of layoffs, reports TOI.

DataCenter Dynamics, an industry insider publication has reported that Oracle has fired more than 3,000 employees. The layoffs which started in August have now been spread across multiple regions and businesses and the fresh round of layoffs have affected employees in US, India, Philippines, Canada and parts of Europe.

According to a report in Fast Company, the Bay Area layoffs are part of a broader wave of job cuts in multiple states including Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, and Washington State. The Bay Area layoffs follow a similar round of job cuts just last month, then Oracle cut 289 local jobs amid what is reported to be a shift toward artificial intelligence.

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Oracle employees laid off in California, Seattle

Last month, Oracle notified hundreds of employees of layoffs and these job cuts are now hitting hitting Kansas City according to several people KCTV5 spoke with Thursday. The technology company filed a required notice of intent that it planned to layoff more than 300 people in California on August 13 and on the same day, it started laying off more than 250 employees in Seattle as shown by a notification filed in Washington.

One of the employees said the company sent an invite for a virtual meeting. After joining the meeting the employees said they were laid off almost immediately.

The tech giant will be cutting 254 jobs locally, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed with the Employment Development Department. Of the jobs cut locally, 36 will be at Oracle’s Pleasanton office on Owens Drive and 31 will be at its Leonard Stocking Drive facility in Santa Clara. The majority of the job cuts — 187 — would be at its former headquarters at 500 Oracle Parkway in Redwood City.

All of the layoffs are permanent, according to the WARN notice. The job cuts are in the Professional Scientific and Technical Services sector which encompasses the tech industry.

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Salesforce announces job cuts

Both Oracle and Salesforce have slashed hundreds of positions across California and Washington this week, according to reports. In filings with state regulators, the two software giants disclosed plans to eliminate more than 500 jobs in the Bay Area and nearly 200 in the Seattle region.

Salesforce is cutting 262 roles in San Francisco, while Oracle is eliminating 254 jobs spread across Redwood City, Pleasanton, and Santa Clara. The reductions are set to take effect around November 3 and have been described as permanent.

Not just California, even in the Seattle area, Salesforce has let go of 93 employees across its Bellevue and Seattle offices, while Oracle has trimmed 101 jobs in the city. Both companies have framed the layoffs as part of a restructuring process aimed at redirecting resources toward growth priorities.

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“At the start of this year we deployed help.agentforce.com. Because of the benefits and efficiencies of Agentforce, we’ve seen the number of support cases we handle decline, and we no longer need to actively backfill support engineer roles. We’ve successfully redeployed hundreds of employees into other areas like professional services, sales, and customer success," a Salesforce spokesperson said.

The news of Oracle's latest layoffs come on the day it was reported that Salesforce would also be cutting hundreds of jobs in Bay Area after its CEO, Marc Benioff, boasted about artificial intelligence allowing him to “rebalance” his headcount by cutting 4,000 jobs.

Which employees and teams of Oracle would be affected?

The latest round of layoffs in Oracle has extended beyond the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) teams, according to Data Center Dynamics. It is the same team that saw layoffs last month. In the fresh round the employees working in Oracle Health (formerly Cerner), architects and other corporate divisions are impacted, according to report.

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On the other hand, in the US, the layoffs majorly impacted employees within Oracle Health, affecting Care Delivery and Consulting roles. A filing with Washington state’s Employment Security Department confirmed 101 layoffs in Seattle, in addition to 161 job losses disclosed in August.

Oracle was originally headquartered in Santa Clara before relocating to Redwood Shores. During the pandemic, the tech giant pulled up stakes and moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas. Last year, the company pulled up stakes again when its CEO, Larry Ellison, announced the company would be moving its HQ to Nashville, Tennessee.