{"id":578673,"date":"2026-04-01T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578673\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:12:08","slug":"us-tech-firm-oracle-cuts-thousands-of-jobs-as-it-steps-up-ai-spending-oracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578673\/","title":{"rendered":"US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending | Oracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs as the US technology company seeks to reassure investors that its bet on AI infrastructure will pay off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The $420bn (\u00a3315bn) company, which is headquartered in Austin, Texas, started making employees redundant on Tuesday, with thousands of its 162,000-strong workforce expected to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">About 10,000 people have lost their jobs so far, the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm296jzzl9yo\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>, citing an unnamed employee at the company, which is chaired by Larry Ellison, the billionaire ally of Donald Trump. Ellison is worth $189bn and is the world\u2019s sixth richest person, Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/real-time-billionaires\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">estimates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Michael Shepherd, a senior manager at Oracle, who was not affected by the cuts, posted on the social media site LinkedIn that there had been a \u201csignificant reduction in force\u201d at the business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Shepherd said the decision had affected \u201csenior engineers, architects, operations leaders, program managers, and technical specialists with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, government and sovereign cloud environments, and enterprise-scale systems\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/read-oracle-layoff-email-employees-job-cuts-2026-3\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported the job cuts<\/a>, which were announced via an email that said: \u201cAfter careful consideration of Oracle\u2019s current business needs, we have made the decision to eliminate your role as part of a broader organisational change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Oracle acknowledged some job losses on Tuesday, affecting 491 employees working remotely in Washington state in the US and at its Seattle offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The cuts come as Oracle, a business software company, steps up spending on datacentres \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/23\/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-ofgem-peak-demand\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">key infrastructure for developing and operating AI systems<\/a> \u2013 in an effort to better compete with cloud rivals, such as Alphabet and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Oracle\u2019s plans include a $300bn datacentre deal with OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, but investors have grown concerned about the billions of dollars of expenditure attached to its plans, which includes raising $50bn in new debt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a March filing, Oracle said it expected total costs tied to its 2026 restructuring plan to reach up to $2.1bn, largely owing to redundancies and related expenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Meanwhile, more than 70 tech companies have cut about 40,480 jobs so far this year, according to the tech redundancy site Layoffs.fyi, as companies increasingly reallocate resources towards artificial intelligence, heightening fears of AI-driven disruptions among workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Last month, Reuters reported that Meta was planning sweeping job cuts that could affect 20% or more of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Oracle declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Reuters contributed to this story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs as the US technology company seeks to reassure investors that its bet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-578673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}