Oracle employees were locked out of company systems, disconnected from Slack and had their building badges deactivated on September 14 before receiving termination notices at 6 a.m. The generic Oracle Leadership email said their roles had been eliminated immediately, identified that day as their last, and requested personal email addresses for severance paperwork. The process mirrored layoffs in March 2026, when employees also lost access before being informed. The cuts form part of a fiscal 2026 restructuring that eliminated approximately 21,000 roles, or 13% of Oracle's global workforce, reducing headcount from roughly 162,000 to about 141,000. Oracle has redirected resources toward AI infrastructure and cloud capacity and allocated an additional $700 million for restructuring expenses, including severance, exit costs and operational work involved in dismantling teams and reassigning responsibilities. The September actions reinforce a pattern of large-scale reductions carried out with limited warning and automated access revocations, while the scale of the restructuring leaves open the possibility of further cuts.