Oracle killed logins at 4am, Slack at 5am, then emailed "today is your last day" at 6am

Oracle just executed the coldest mass layoff in recent memory.

Not the cuts themselves. The execution.

At 4am Eastern on September 14, federated logins stopped working across Oracle's U.S. operations. Between 5am and 5:30am, Slack sessions dropped in a rolling wave. Office badges failed at building entrances.

Then at 6am, an email from "Oracle Leadership" arrived:

"We have made the decision to eliminate your role as part of a broader organizational change. As a result, today is your last working day."

Slack membership fell by an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 accounts that morning.

The affected departments tell you everything about Oracle's priorities. OCI security. Enterprise engineering. Observability. Fusion. NetSuite sales. Oracle Health. HR Technology. Data center compliance. The Stargate site in Abilene, Texas.

Performance didn't matter. One HR Technology employee had four consecutive "4" ratings and one "5" before being cut. A QA engineer with 24 years of service was let go. Workers at the Abilene site who had joined months earlier were included.

This came three days after Oracle added $700 million to its restructuring bill, bringing the total to $2.8 billion. The company is spending $28.5 billion per quarter on capital expenditure. Free cash flow is negative $5.4 billion. The stock is down 23% this year.

India is next. Employees estimate 3,000 to 4,000 cuts at the India Development Centre, with customer support reductions of up to 30%.

This is the new template. Kill access first. Email second. No conversation. No transition. Just a login failure at 4am and a severance form at 6am.

If your company is planning AI-driven restructuring, study this execution model. It's coming to your industry.

SOURCE: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/oracle-layoffs-us-employees-lose-system-access-before-a-6-a-m-email-reveals-their-jobs-were-eliminated-india-could-be-next/articleshow/134244496.cms
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