Oracle India layoffs spark unease amid AI push

Oracle India employees say project update emails have increasingly created unease, especially after recent layoffs, with many viewing them as a proxy for job cuts.

Oracle, which employs close to 30,000 people in India, is facing anxiety similar to that of its global peers. “Jobs as we know them just don’t exist anymore,” said an affected employee working in the database team. “It was all over in less than 20 minutes — a Zoom invite, the manager on the call, and the HR rep telling me it wasn’t about my performance but purely business reasons. My access was revoked very quickly. My RSUs were due to vest in February, but now I’ll lose them,” he said on condition of anonymity.