US technology company Oracle is set to lay off 30,000 employees, including 12,000 Indians, as it pushes ahead with structural changes and the use of AI technology.
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US multinational computer technology company Oracle has announced that it will lay off 30,000 employees at once, CNBC reported. Of these, 12,000 are employees working in its India office. This is the highest number of staff reductions in a year.
The company, headquartered in Austin, Texas, sent an email to employees on Tuesday evening to inform them not to come to the office, saying that some positions were being eliminated due to structural changes. As of May 2025, the company had about 162,000 full-time employees worldwide.
The Hindustan Times reported that Oracle has provided 15 days of salary to employees who have been in the company's India office for at least the last year and are currently laid off. In addition, it has offered one month's salary, accrued leave money, merit-based gratuity and one month's notice period.
The company's senior manager Michael Shepherd revealed in a LinkedIn post that the employees were not fired based on their work. "Senior engineers, architects, operations leaders, program managers, technology specialists have been fired," he wrote. "They were not fired based on their work or what they did or did not do." The company is said to be trying to automate some tasks through artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Oracle is investing heavily in AI and has adopted a strategy to use extensive AI tools internally to empower a small number of employees to do more work, according to several senior company employees.
"The use of AI coding tools has made it possible to deliver effective and relevant solutions to our customers faster through a small engineering team," the company's assistant chief executive Mike Cecilia said a few days ago.
According to the BBC, Cecilia said such AI tools have helped in new ways to identify potential customers and automated sales of Oracle services. He also informed that the company recently used AI to build its new corporate website.
One of the world's largest technology companies, Oracle has been providing software and cloud computing infrastructure to companies around the world. Its co-founder and chairman, Larry Ellison, is one of the richest people in the world.
