Oracle Layoffs: Employee says Slack access vanished at 4 am, Reddit post captures fear of AI era cuts
Two Oracle employees have taken to Reddit to describe how they discovered their access had been cut during the latest round of layoffs, with one saying Slack stopped working at 4 am and another reporting deactivation at 5:45 am.
Two Oracle employees have shared personal accounts on Reddit of having their access to company systems revoked before receiving official layoff notifications. One user reported being logged out of Slack at 4 a.m., while another noted their profile showing as deactivated to colleagues at 5:45 a.m. Both employees had not yet received formal layoff emails.
The loss of access to company systems came as Oracle is undergoing another round of job cuts as part of its broader organizational change. Oracle has increased spending on data centers and artificial intelligence infrastructure, spending $28.5 billion in capital expenditure in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, compared to $8.5 billion a year earlier. The company has not disclosed the number of employees affected by the latest round of layoffs.
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