Tracking participants count #general Slack channel in Oracle One workspace, as the fastest available proxy indication of ongoing layoffs.
- mar01-mar31: 12446 layoffs, and 844 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
- feb01-feb28: 943 layoffs, and 1143 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
- jan01-jan31: 1604 layoffs, and 1834 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
- dec01-dec31: 1031 layoffs, and 844 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
- nov01-nov30: 1614 layoffs, and 1327 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
- oct01-oct31: 2504 layoffs, 1762 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
- sep02-sep30: 6275 layoffs, 861 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
- aug14-sep01: 733 layoffs (based on Slack very few data points)
- aug01-aug14: ?2900 layoffs in IDC (based on media reports)
Regions outside IDC and NA usually have a significant delay when laid off people are disconnected from Slack (e.g. 1 month in Pacific regions, perhaps longer in some EU countries), so this is a floor estimate with additions reflected immediately, but reductions lagging behind on average.
What is called "layoff estimates" are partially part of normal attrition, limitations are covered in details in comments.
I will post daily in comments on the count change and running current month total while this post is still on the first page.