Oracle began another round of layoffs on Monday, Sept. 14, 2026, telling affected employees their positions were eliminated as part of a “broader organizational change” and that today was their last working day, according to an internal email reviewed by CTech and reporting based on a Business Insider account of the notice, including coverage by The Times of India and Hindustan Times.

Staff described a familiar sequence: system access failing before dawn, then an email from “Oracle Leadership” around 6 a.m. local time. The company has not disclosed how many roles are affected in this round. Secondary outlets have circulated unverified estimates of roughly 7,000–10,000 cuts; treat those figures as unconfirmed unless Oracle or a primary filing says otherwise.

“We are sharing some difficult news regarding your position. 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. As a result, today is your last working day.”

— Oracle Leadership layoff email (as reported via Business Insider / CTech / Times of India)

The message said separation paperwork and severance details would follow through DocuSign, instructed workers to submit a personal email address for follow-up documents, and warned that access to computers, email, voicemail, and files would be deactivated shortly.

The cuts land on top of a restructuring already under way. Oracle recently raised expected fiscal 2026 restructuring costs by about $700 million, bringing the projected total to roughly $2.8 billion, covering severance and other exit costs tied to reshaping the business while it expands AI and cloud infrastructure spending.

In the fiscal year ended May 31, 2026, Oracle’s workforce fell by about 21,000 employees — roughly 13% — leaving about 141,000 full-time workers before Monday’s round, according to the company’s annual filing and subsequent reporting. In that 10-K, the company wrote that deploying AI across operations “have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce.”

Meanwhile, demand on the cloud side is still climbing. For the fiscal first quarter ended Aug. 31, 2026 (Q1 FY2027), Oracle reported total revenue up 30% to $19.3 billion, with cloud infrastructure revenue up 121% to $7.4 billion, per the company’s earnings release. Capital expenditure in the same quarter hit about $28.5 billion, and free cash flow was deeply negative as data-center buildout accelerated — the classic squeeze of paying for AI capacity while trimming payroll elsewhere.

Oracle had not issued a public headcount for Monday’s wave at publish time. Until it does, the only hard facts are the email’s language, the immediate last day, and the documented restructuring and cloud-spend backdrop — not the circulating 7,000–10,000 guesses.

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