Oracle is expanding its voluntary separation program for eligible U.S. employees as the technology company continues to reduce its workforce while pouring billions of dollars into data centers and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Under the program, eligible employees can receive six weeks of severance if they voluntarily leave the company. The program is expected to take effect Oct. 1 and could serve as an alternative to Performance Improvement Plans for employees who are not meeting performance expectations.
The voluntary separation offer comes as Oracle has already eliminated more than 21,000 jobs globally, representing about 13% of its workforce. The company ended fiscal 2026 with roughly 141,000 employees after a major restructuring across several parts of the business.
Research and development accounted for about 7,000 of the job reductions, while sales and marketing lost around 6,000 employees. Oracle also reduced its cloud and services workforces by roughly 3,000 employees each.
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The latest cuts are also reaching Oracle’s operations in Ireland. The company has begun a collective redundancy process and told employees it plans to eliminate another 70 positions. Most of those jobs are in engineering and development, with additional reductions expected in sales and finance.
Oracle’s America Cloud Infrastructure organization has also been affected, with 546 employees impacted by the restructuring. Software developers, infrastructure engineers and managers were among those most affected.
The workforce reductions come as Oracle faces rising restructuring costs. The company spent about $1.84 billion on restructuring and severance during fiscal 2026. In September, it increased its expected restructuring costs by another $700 million, bringing the projected total to approximately $2.8 billion.
Those expenses include severance payments, contract terminations and other costs associated with the company’s restructuring.
At the same time, Oracle is significantly increasing its spending on cloud infrastructure. The company is building out data centers and expanding computing capacity to keep up with growing demand for artificial intelligence services.
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Oracle reported $28.5 billion in capital expenditures in its latest quarter, up sharply from $8.5 billion during the same period a year earlier. The company has also maintained its forecast for fiscal 2027 capital expenditures at between $90 billion and $95 billion.
The contrast between the job cuts and infrastructure spending highlights how Oracle is shifting its resources as demand for AI computing grows. While the company is reducing its workforce in several areas, it is directing unprecedented amounts of capital toward the infrastructure needed to support its cloud and AI businesses.
Oracle’s new CFO Hilary Maxson has described the restructuring as an effort to be more selective about where the company directs its money and employees’ time. The goal, she has indicated, is not simply to ask employees to accomplish more with fewer resources, but to make more deliberate decisions about where the company invests.
The expanded voluntary separation program adds another element to Oracle’s broader restructuring, giving some U.S. employees the option to leave with severance as the company continues to reshape its workforce around its cloud and AI expansion.