Oracle spokesman Deborah Hellinger shared a prepared statement: "As our cloud business develops, we will continue to balance our resources and restructure our development team to help ensure that we have the right people to deliver the best cloud products to our customers around the world."
According to media reports, Oracle, the global business software giant, recently submitted documents to the government department showing that the company is planning to lay off more than 300 people in California, the United States. The layoff plan is also part of the company's efforts to restructure its cloud computing business. In addition, Oracle is also planning larger staff cuts to further improve operational efficiency.
According to media reports, according to California law, if a company cuts more than 50 employees at a time, it must notify the government 60 times in advance.
The company, based in Redwood, California, told the California Employment Development Board that on May 21, it would permanently cut 255 jobs at its headquarters in Redwood and 97 jobs at its nearby office in Santa Clara. A total of about 350 people have been cut in the two institutions.
Oracle currently employs 140,000 people worldwide. The company did not comment on the layoffs plan for May.
Recently, Oracle spokesman Deborah Hellinger shared a prepared statement: "With the development of our cloud business, we will continue to balance our resources and restructure our development team to help ensure that we have the right people to provide our customers around the world with the best cloud products."
In two letters to California's employment regulator, Oracle wrote that it was reassessing its product priorities and skills gaps. For these reasons, the company decided to lay off some employees of the product development organization, which is expected to be permanent.
The letter said that the vast majority of those who lost their jobs in both organizations were listed as software developers.
However, the redundancy plans in these reports seem to be only part of a larger international downsizing effort, which was flooded with anonymous posts on thelayoff.com a few weeks ago about internal redundancies at Oracle.
The company's Dyn division in Manchester, New Jersey, and an office in Seattle were also reported to have cut jobs, affecting 40 cloud computing infrastructure team employees outside the United States.
"They've been laying off a lot," said a former Oracle employee, who lost his job in September last year as part of a California-law layoff plan.
The former employees are part of Oracle's Fusion application development team, and it has been revealed that about 25% of the more than 100 employees, including many senior developers, have been fired. At the same time, the sales department also experienced great personnel turbulence.
The former Oracle employee told the media that at about the same time, Oracle was recruiting new employees, many of whom came from Microsoft's cloud computing department and Amazon's cloud computing business, and these job-hoppers from competitors demanded generous salaries.
The former employee said Oracle's recruitment efforts were aimed at reversing the troubled cloud computing infrastructure services sector.
In an interview with the media, the former employee said Oracle's current employees are expected to have thousands more laid off.
A chief executive of a large Oracle partnership closely related to Oracle employees told the media that many people familiar with Oracle said that 5 to 10 percent of its employees in North America would be unemployed.
At the same time, Oracle is recruiting, including many new employees from Microsoft who specialize in customer experience and marketing solutions, the executive said.