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Oracle's Thelayoff Board - 30K Layoff Coverage- Last 24 hours summary (April 1st 2026)

For journos and non Oracle folks I pulled all posts and this is a summary as the essence has been spread across many threads.

A bit of transparency will not hurt.

A major layoff wave had already hit by the time of these posts, and the strongest internal evidence in the file is the Slack-count tracking. One poster in thread @1kn5cfg61 says, "The only fact we know is Slack totals", then shows a drop from 165,198 to 155,607 on March 31 and then to 154,796 by early April 1, adding, "We know IDC, Canada, US, Mexico were hit. There is nothing from Europe yet." A separate tracking thread, @1kn4h3j2q, reports "mar01-mar31: 12446 layoffs, and 844 additions" and explicitly says that is a floor estimate because non-NA regions can lag in Slack deactivation. Later in the same tracking stream, the April 1 daytime update is only 129 layoffs and 74 additions, which implies the main visible shock had already happened earlier.

The employee experience of the event was overwhelmingly described as abrupt, impersonal, and automated. The clearest emotional frame comes from thread @1kn4zxtc0, where the OP writes that people were cut from medical insurance and work after years of service and concludes, "It lacked basic human decency." Another poster in @1kn463hmv writes, "The best they could muster was an email," describing being one year from retirement and recovering from a stroke. A separate post in @1kn3be0cp goes further and claims, "This Layoff was entirely orchestrated through AI and ML tools inside Oracle" and says Slack, mail access, laptop shutdown, and severance handling were all automated. That last claim should be treated as a worker interpretation of a heavily automated process, not proof that AI chose who was cut.

The exact total was still unresolved inside the posts. The file shows three different layers of counting at once: actual observed Slack drops, rumor-level 30,000 claims, and predictions of future waves. The Slack evidence supports a very large current event, but posters themselves repeatedly say the total is still uncertain. One thread asks whether only 10k are done or whether 30k are done. Another says "30k is the number thrown by an analyst", while others say Europe, EMEA, Philippines, and Japan still have not fully shown up in the counts yet. So the cleanest reading is: large current layoff wave already happened, but the final global total was still being guessed.

Geographically, the posts point to North America and India first, with Europe and some APAC regions later or not yet visible. The strongest direct wording is again from @1kn5cfg61: "There is nothing from Europe yet." There are separate posts saying "EU/UK still to come end of April" and "In the Americas. Europe still to come." A rumor thread also says "Bloodbath in Philippines coming up next week". At the very top of the file, after the 24-hour window, a new post says a Missouri WARN notice was filed for 539 positions. In addition, earlier posts cite a Seattle June 1 WARN for 491 jobs and say that means more cuts are still ahead rather than already completed.

The benefits and severance discussion was not side chatter. It was central. The most repeated package description is in thread @1kn4pe83h, where a reply says, "4 weeks of pay for the first year of service and one week of pay for every year after that, maxing out at 26 weeks. No benefits after your final day of employment, which for me is April 10. Cobra is available." Another post says, "The real kick in the cr---h is the termination of medical on Apr 10." The OP in @1kn4b96wr calls it "Miserable Severance Payoff" and says after nearly 15 years, "I am being shown the door with just 18 weeks of pay." Some posters add that WARN notice periods may offset severance in certain states. The main point is consistent even where exact formulas vary: people felt the payout and benefits runway were poor relative to tenure and market conditions.

WARN and legality were another major live issue. Some posters argue Oracle was within the rules because people remained on payroll or were put on garden leave. Others focus on location-based WARN triggers, remote-worker ambiguity, and future-dated WARN notices. The file includes, "California WARN triggers when there is 50+ people laid off in the same location", a detailed post about remote employees being treated as outstationed workers for WARN analysis, and the Seattle/Missouri items noted above. The overall legal picture in the file is confusion, not consensus.

Selection logic, as employees perceived it, was also a major theme. Posters repeatedly argue this was not performance-based. One post says, "This layoff had NOTHING to do with performance. Zero. Literally the best, hardest working, most knowledgeable people got laid off." Another asks "Age discrimination?" and says the group lost mostly older workers. A management-level thread says the cuts looked skewed toward high-cost or older employees and that some orgs cut ICs more heavily than higher managers. A long post says, "Yep, the +45 crowd... makes more money. It is the easiest way to make the org younger and reduce the financial burden." These are allegations and perceptions, but they are among the most common explanations inside the file.

On manager knowledge, the file is split almost evenly between "they absolutely knew" and "my manager was blindsided." Thread @1kn498r17 captures the contradiction best. One reply says, "Managers didn't necessarily know. My manager didn't know." Another says, "Your manager not only knew, he was the one who submitted your name." That means the posts do not support a single clean conclusion. The best reading is that knowledge likely varied by level, org, and timing.

Communication after the cuts looks thin and inconsistent. One post says, "There has been no public disclosure to shareholders or the press that layoffs have happened. Management is sticking to its 'restructuring' story." Another says, "No mention at all from any top manager." But one VP-level anecdote says, "our VP told us yesterday on the call that it was a sad day and he is not going to try spinning it." So employees did not experience a coordinated, transparent company-wide explanation. They experienced a vacuum with scattered local acknowledgment.

The file also contains a large amount of visa, nationality, and manager-bias discussion. Some threads claim U.S. citizens and green card holders were hit harder, but other posters directly rebut that with counterexamples such as "Not true, 23 H-1Bs were RIF'd in my org." Because the board is anonymous and highly emotional, these claims should be treated as evidence of what employees were accusing each other and management of, not as verified headcount analysis.

Finally, the social mood matters because it helps explain the thread behavior. This was not a calm information thread. It was a mix of fear, moral outrage, legal speculation, gallows humor, anger at leadership, job-search advice, retirement talk, and trolling. That is why one thread is literally titled "Why all of the callous comments?" and another says the board had become "heart breaking stories." The emotional center of the file is not just job loss. It is humiliation, uncertainty, and a sense that the process itself was dehumanizing.

## Best direct evidence - thread IDs and quotes

Here are the strongest posts to anchor the summary:

  1. Thread @OP+1kn5cfg61
    "The only fact we know is Slack totals" and then the post lists the big count breaks, including "mar31, 12:30pm UTC: 155607 (-9591)" and "apr01, 2:30am UTC: 154796 (-808)."

  2. Thread @OP+1kn4h3j2q
    "Layoff running totals based on Slack" with "mar01-mar31: 12446 layoffs, and 844 additions" and the warning that this is a "floor estimate" because non-NA regions can lag in Slack removal.

  3. Thread @OP+1kn4zxtc0
    "People just got sick with that situation. It lacked basic human decency."

  4. Thread @OP+1kn463hmv
    "One Year Away From Retirement" and "The best they could muster was an email."

  5. Thread @OP+1kn4pe83h
    "4 weeks of pay for the first year of service and one week of pay for every year after that, maxing out at 26 weeks. No benefits after your final day of employment, which for me is April 10."

  6. Thread @OP+1kn5kk92v
    "Further layoffs coming in July" and "this was just the initial wave."

  7. Thread @OP+1kn3wdptp
    "EU/UK still to come end of April. It will never stop....."

  8. Thread @OP+1kn498r17
    One side says, "Managers didn't necessarily know. My manager didn't know." The other side says, "Your manager not only knew." This is the cleanest evidence that manager foreknowledge was unresolved and contested.

## Bottom line

The hardest-read version is this:

  • A large layoff wave clearly already happened.
  • The best hard evidence in the file is the Slack-count collapse, not the rumor-level 30k claims.
  • Employees experienced it as email-first, access-cutoff, automated, and dehumanizing.
  • Severance, benefits end dates, WARN, and legal exposure became immediate practical concerns.
  • Posters broadly believed more geography and more rounds were still ahead, especially Europe, APAC, and later U.S. waves.
  • Almost everything beyond that - exact global total, who knew, AI involvement in decision-making, visa favoritism, age bias, manager-level targeting - was being argued in real time and should be treated as contested interpretation rather than settled fact.
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Once there, enter your keyword, then filter manually by looking for results under /at-and-t.

This is less precise than Google but still works.

#TheLayoff #Forum

Springfield-based 9Wood conducts third round of layoffs

  • Springfield-based manufacturer 9Wood laid off 19 workers in mid-January.
  • This is the third round of layoffs for the company, totaling about 60 workers since early 2025.
  • A laid-off employee expressed shock and concern about the company's future and his own finances.

https://www.registerguard.com/story/business/2026/01/30/springfield-manufacturer-continues-shedding-jobs-in-january/88416689007/

#Layoffs #TheLayoff #Manufacturing #Reduction

Its nice to see this site is slowing down, no one cares about Enbridge anymore.

I remember the bad days with ALL THE LAYoffs 2014 onwards when this site was very active. I guess with all the senior employees leaving for a better life/job, or with the thousands of layoffs. Those that remain are new employees, the WORST left over employees, or ones waiting for retirement. Well from what I hear from my friends, contractors, management nothing has changed,  I am so sad to see such a great company de-evolve into what it is today. I am so happy that I got the option to leave years ago to a new better life. For those that remain, I wish a better life at Enbridge, but unfortunately I do not see this ever returning to Enbridge.

#TheLayoff #Forum #Company #TheGrassIsGreener

Market Downturn = End of RTO

When revenue tightens and the stock slides, forcing five days in-office is pure waste. Higher real estate costs, higher attrition, lower productivity. If leadership is serious about discipline, RTO should be the first thing cut. However, it will just be headcount. Expect layoffs and FTW letters to increase at record speed.

#RTO #ReturnToOffice #HeadcountReduction #TheLayoff

LAYOFF.COM: As of 2014 Verizon employs 180,000 people.

This is literally the description on the Layoff.com portal

Let’s that sink in!!!!!!!

We are now 85k barely. We have lost close to 100k employees.

This is a effing TITANIC I say. Jump while you can. Indian future CEO is already interviewing. Trust me!!!!

#HeadcountReduction #Cuts #TheLayoff #Forum #CEO

No, thelayoff.com, I’m not going to disable my adblock

You keep playing with this sh-t, and I will start using AdNauseam. Others too. We will see who wins when this whole stupid obnoxious ads economy collapses.

You have to understand. I’d love to support you. But these ads are not just supporting you - they are destroying my privacy. Do you not understand how absurd and lopsided this idea of tracking pixels is on a website built for anonymous users?

#TheLayoff #Forum

How can we share this website with coworkers???

I think it would be helpful if more of us participated here so we could all benefit from more information.

I see that new threads get 300+ views within a couple of hours, which is great, but I do not feel we have reached critical mass yet.

I would share this internally, but I am worried I might get in trouble if someone were to report me.

I have mentioned it verbally to my team, but that is only about 10 people.

I could post about it on Facebook using a random name, but I doubt that would actually reach anyone useful.

Any ideas or suggestions on how to spread the word safely and effectively?

#Question #TheLayoff #Forum #EmployeeAssistance #EmployeeRelations

how can we share this website with coworkers?

i think it'd be good if more of us participate here, we'd have access to more info.

i see that new threads get 300+ views within a couple of hours which is good, but i do not think we have critical mass here.

i'd share internally but i am afraid that i'll get in trouble if someone reports me.

i did verbally let my team know, but that's only about 10 folks.

i can post on facebook using a random name but i dont think it would reach anyone...

thoughts?

#TheLayoff #Forum #Question #EmployeeAssistance #EmployeeRelations