Report: Oracle cuts workforce by 500
Oracle has sliced approximately 500 positions from its sales and consulting staff businesses in North America, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
The positions, which would account for less than 2 percent of Oracle's North American workforce as of November, were cut on Friday, according to the Journal.
Oracle's reported layoffs come at a time when a number of companies across all industry sectors are slashing their workforce by double digits as the economy languishes in a recession.
And while other companies are making staff cuts amid steep declines in their revenues and earnings, Oracle's last quarterly report in November posted a 6 percent increase in second-quarter revenues and a modest 1 percent decline in net profits.
Oracle declined comment on the reported layoffs.
Dawn Kawamoto covers enterprise security and financial news relating to technology for CNET News. E-mail Dawn. 






Look back at Oracle January press during the past ten years and you note only one thing about the Emerald City- its consistent.
- by globalist_agenda January 14, 2009 11:06 AM PST
- Layoffs are patriotic. Shipping jobs overseas is patriotric. The only way captains of industry can maintain their lifestyle during the Bush Depression is by laying off staff.
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- by loose_screw January 14, 2009 2:55 PM PST
- Agreed. Layoffs = cheap & easy way for management to boost balance sheet numbers...at least temporarily.
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