Tracking participants count #general Slack channel in Oracle One workspace, as the fastest available proxy indication of ongoing layoffs.
This round of mass layoff started on Mar24-25 according to Slack totals and it's sustained. I have to start a new thread, because our resident troll started counterfeiting Slack totals and trends again on the first page.
- mar01-mar28: 1618 layoffs, and 746 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.
Layoff estimates are partially part of normal attrition, but the other part of normal attrition is already hidden due to additions and removals compensate each other when they happen at the same period of time. Strictly speaking what is called "layoffs" here are just "reductions" in totals.
I will post daily in comments on the count change and running current month total while this post is still on the first page.