21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI
Annual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion
Oracle's workforce shrank by 21,000 over the last year, according to the company's annual report.
In June 2025 [PDF], Big Red reported that it employed "approximately 162,000" employees. By June 2026 [PDF], that figure had fallen to 141,000. US headcount fell by 9,000, while the international workforce declined by 12,000.
"Our periodic workforce restructurings and reorganizations can be disruptive," Oracle stated. "Deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce."
"We may initiate new restructuring plans in the future," it added, ominously.
Reports of layoffsat Oracle have circulated in recent months as the company seeks to finance its AI datacenter build-out. Estimates have ranged from 20,000 to 30,000, while the annual report shows that its workforce shrank by approximately 21,000...
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