How many were laid off in the end? 12 k with another 18k to go or have all 30k been notified already?
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@kr Aug01-14 there were mainstream media reports with specific numbers for IDC.
for Aug14 I got the first Slack #general channel total in Oracle One workspace: 173529. Starting from Sep02 when layoffs started in NA I was tracking that channel totals daily, sometimes there gaps, in intense periods I was sampling every few hours.
So my additions and reductions are the floor estimates, the minimum, because I just check total change and sometimes both reductions and additions happen at the same period of time and cancel each other out and are not caught by totals change.
On the other hand, there is also a normal attrition when people leave on their own, based on months tracked without any layoffs, the best example would be Feb 2026, by that time all Slack counts were reflected since 2025 layoffs and no mass layoff started yet, so normal monthly attrition looked like ~1k people leaving and adding:
- feb01-feb28: 943 layoffs, and 1143 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
These numbers seem to indicate a total reduction of 22k since Aug, but I think it is closer to 18k if you are going by purely by Slack. Where did you find the base number used?
if you count since August, grand totals are:
30718 reductions, 8760 additions;
some reductions and additions cancelled each other out and were not caught by sample Slack totals
Slack totals indicate around 12k, it started on Mar24:
reductions: 12,554, additions: 346
- mar24, 1am UTC: 166542
- mar24, 1:30pm UTC: 166434 (-108)
- mar24, 10:30pm UTC: 166432 (-2)
- mar25, 1pm UTC: 166343 (-89)
- mar25, 3pm UTC: 166325 (-18)
- mar25, 8:30pm UTC: 166092 (-233)
- mar25, 9pm UTC: 166072 (-20)
- mar25, 11pm UTC: 165995 (-77)
- mar26, 1pm UTC: 165865 (-130)
- mar26, 6:30pm UTC: 165800 (-65)
- mar27, 3:30am UTC: 165707 (-93)
- mar27, 2pm UTC: 165736 (+29)
- mar27, 8pm UTC: 165723 (-13)
- mar28, 2:30pm UTC: 165526 (-197)
- mar30, 12:30pm UTC: 165614 (+88)
- mar30, 4pm UTC: 165589 (-25)
- mar30, 9:30pm UTC: 165333 (-256)
- mar31, 2am UTC: 165228 (-105)
- mar31, 5am UTC: 165198 (-30)
- mar31, 12:30pm UTC: 155607 (-9591)
- mar31, 6pm UTC: 155594 (-13)
- mar31, 9:30pm UTC: 155604 (+10)
- apr01, 2:30am UTC: 154796 (-808)
- apr01, 6am UTC: 154682 (-114)
- apr01, 12:30pm UTC: 154756 (+74)
- apr01, 2:30am UTC: 154796 (-808)
- apr01, 6am UTC: 154682 (-114)
- apr01, 12:30pm UTC: 154756 (+74)
- apr01, 8pm UTC: 154741 (-15)
- apr02, 4:30am UTC: 154576 (-165)
- apr02, 2pm UTC: 154642 (+66)
- apr02, 6pm UTC: 154642 (0)
- apr03, 2pm UTC: 154397 (-245)
- apr03, 11:30pm UTC: 154398 (+1)
- apr04, 11:30pm UTC: 154314 (-84)
- apr06, 1:30am UTC: 154297 (-17)
- apr06, 1:30pm UTC: 154301 (+4)
- apr07, 4am UTC: 154273 (-28)
- apr07, 1:30pm UTC: 154260 (-13)
why fixate on 30k number of cut? it's just a guesstimate some guy came up with. It could be much more or much less
@a5 wrong , why you didn't include India where the main layoff happened...12k including India,
18k to 20k more layoffs will happen, it could be included again US and India+ other regions.
12k is US, Mexico and Canada. All other countries will be in the coming weeks which will equal 30k globally. The second wave for the US is later in the year. Peace and love.
It appears approximately 12,000 were let go.
There is no evidence of an immediate second wave.
The best assumption is the reorganization funds has not been depleted nor has the Oracle long term financial situation significantly changed.
It is more likely ‘when’, ‘where’ and ‘magnitude’ the next wave will happen rather than ‘if’ the next wave will happen.