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Oracle Layoffs 2026: In a shocking development, Oracle announced one of its biggest job cuts in recent years. The tech firm laid off around 20,000 to 30,000 employees across countries, including India, Canada, the US, and parts of Latin America. According to reports, most employees learned about the layoffs through early morning emails, which made the situation even more shocking.

Layoff at all levels

The massive number of job cuts was not the only concern, but also who has been affected. Many experienced and long-time employees have lost their jobs. Some of them had been working with the company for more than a decade.

Nina Lewis, a senior security expert who had spent over 33 years at Oracle, had been laid off. She, like many others, received a sudden email at 6 am informing her about the layoff.

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The development has once again started a larger conversation about job security, especially in big tech companies, amid the emergence of Artificial Intelligence.

Oracle is not the only company where job cuts have taken place in recent times. In the past month, companies like Meta, Microsoft, Disney, and ASML have also announced major layoffs.

Tech Firms Layoffs

According to media reports, Meta and Microsoft together have cut over 20,000 jobs just a few days ago. Now, the trend is visible across different industries — from tech to entertainment to chip-making companies. What’s more surprising is that even companies that are making profits are reducing their workforce.

Earlier, hundreds of employees from the e-commerce major 'Flipkart' were laid off after an annual performance review.

Layoff At Block

Earlier this year, Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Block, Inc after selling his stake in Twitter to Elon Musk, announced that they are laying off nearly half of the workforce as the company embraces Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools.

Dorsey said that the firm laid off more than 4,000 employees of their total workforce of 10,000 people.

"Today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organisation by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. " That means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation," Dorsey said in a post on X.

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The Twitter co-founder further said that the decision was made not because 'Block' has some financial decline, but rather because of intelligence tools.


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