{"id":1032795,"date":"2026-09-02T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032795"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:45:29","slug":"oracle-layoffs-the-6-am-email-didnt-come-on-september-1-and-employees-across-us-and-india-are-now-watching-slack-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/oracle-layoffs-the-6-am-email-didnt-come-on-september-1-and-employees-across-us-and-india-are-now-watching-slack-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle layoffs: The &#8216;6 am email&#8217; didn&#8217;t come on September 1, and employees across US and India are now &#8216;watching&#8217; Slack counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 6 am on September 1, thousands of Oracle employees checked their inboxes and found nothing. That silence is what the company&#8217;s workforce is talking about now. The date had taken on a life of its own inside Oracle, not because the company announced anything, but because Business Insider reported in mid-August that managers had been asked to draw up lists of affected staff, with the aim of lowering payroll before Oracle&#8217;s second fiscal quarter opened on September 1. The report, citing people familiar with the plans and an internal document, said reductions on some teams could run into double-digit percentages. Employees did the rest of the arithmetic themselves, drawing on the memory of March 31, when termination emails from &#8220;Oracle Leadership&#8221; landed at roughly 6 am local time and told recipients that the same day was their last working day.So instead of an announcement, there is a countdown that keeps resetting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 6 am on September 1, thousands of Oracle employees checked their inboxes and found nothing. That silence is what the company&#8217;s workforce is talking about now. The date had taken on a life of its own inside Oracle, not because the company announced anything, but because Business Insider reported in mid-August that managers had been asked to draw up lists of affected staff, with the aim of lowering payroll before Oracle&#8217;s second fiscal quarter opened on September 1. The report, citing people familiar with the plans and an internal document, said reductions on some teams could run into double-digit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032796,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032795\/revisions\/1032796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}