Oracle layoffs 2026 may include another round before the company’s second fiscal quarter starts on September 1, according to a Business Insider report cited by Tom’s Hardware and NDTV. The reported cuts are not confirmed: Oracle declined to comment to Tom’s Hardware, and the company and its executives had not publicly confirmed the plans, NDTV reported.
Business Insider reported that Oracle asked managers to identify employees who could be affected as it seeks to reduce payroll. Some teams could lose a double-digit percentage of their staff, according to the report. That is a prospective, unverified plan, not a company-announced number or a confirmed count of jobs.
Has Oracle confirmed another round of layoffs?
No. The reporting describes internal planning and people familiar with it, while Oracle has not publicly confirmed that a new round will occur. The timing reported is before September 1, when Oracle’s second fiscal quarter begins.
The documented part is the company’s prior full-time headcount decline. Oracle’s annual regulatory filing listed about 141,000 full-time employees as of May 31, down from 162,000 a year earlier, CNBC reported. That is a reduction of roughly 21,000 people, or nearly 13%.
That comparison measures the net change in full-time workforce over a year. It does not establish that all 21,000 employees were laid off, or that they left in one event. CNBC reported that Oracle told employees in March it was cutting thousands of jobs.
What the restructuring numbers do and do not show
Oracle’s fiscal-2026 restructuring plan had an expected total cost cap of $2.1 billion, according to the company’s 10-K as reported by Tom’s Hardware. The company recorded $1.8 billion in fiscal-2026 restructuring costs, including severance and exit costs, versus $374 million the prior year, CNBC reported. NDTV, citing Reuters reporting on the filing, put the fiscal-2026 figure at $1.84 billion.
Using those reported numbers, Oracle was about $260 million to $300 million below the plan’s stated cap at fiscal year-end. That is accounting arithmetic, not a pot of cash Oracle has said is reserved for a new layoff round. It also does not reveal how many jobs, if any, the reported cuts would involve.
Oracle’s filing said adoption and deployment of AI technologies across its operations had resulted, and could continue to result, in workforce reductions, CNBC reported. The company also said it would keep restructuring its development group as its cloud and AI businesses expand.
The workforce changes have unfolded alongside expensive infrastructure construction. Oracle reported fiscal-2026 capital expenditure of $55.7 billion and raised $43 billion in debt during the year, Tom’s Hardware reported. Those outlays fund the servers, networking, power and cooling behind cloud capacity, the unglamorous machinery described in this guide to how a data center works. They do not, on their own, prove why any particular employee or team may be cut.
This story draws on original reporting from Tom's Hardware.
