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Yeah what’s the end game here? Can they keep running with such deep cuts to staff and morale…
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Well, we'll know to worry/celebrate when they start laying of lawyers.

The software side can probably go many years without new features. Nobody picks Oracle in 2026 for the features.


Morale has been low at oracle for years. Now it’s just a “we pay you and push you as hard as we can for it until you quit” shop.

That's... most jobs.

Most work for least pay is just business, I thought?

Beatings shall continue until morale improves.


> The latest cuts come after Oracle's workforce fell by roughly 21,000 employees, or 13%, during fiscal 2026

13% doesn't seem too different from other tech companies


The 13% quoted there was from previous layoffs that mostly took place in Q2 of 2026.

This is another 20,000 - 30,000 (the exact number isn't public yet) on top of that.


The difference is that they didn't overhire during Covid.

> Yeah what’s the end game here?

Just Ellison with a giant red borrow more button.

All the other employees are just overhead


Depends on how many employees are on visas that depend on them working for Oracle I guess...

Well they do have their own interference capacity. So AIs to solve every single issue.

>" Can they keep running with such deep cuts to staff and morale…"

...First time?

Oracle is literally the company Dilbert was making fun of


He worked at Pacific Bell between 1986 and June 30, 1995, and the personalities he encountered there inspired many of his Dilbert characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams


And probably no small part of the downturn of Dilbert (besides Adams going a bit nuts) is that Adams is no longer in a workplace he can satirize so it remains stuck largely in 90s cubeland.

> Adams is no longer in a workplace he can satirize

He's also not in a place where he can draw cartoons, what with being dead and all.


Yes, I was speaking of latterly and I could have been clearer with tenses.

> Adams is no longer

Indeed.




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