An Oracle employee approaching five years in the same role, never promoted and, by their own account, poorly paid for it, has put a blunt question to colleagues online. Does being cheap protect a worker from redundancy or invite it? The question arrived days after Oracle drew up plans for another round of cuts.
Thousands of colleagues are asking a version of the same thing. Oracle removed about 21,000 roles in the financial year to 31 May, a fall of roughly 13%. An internal document reported on 11 August has managers naming more before the second quarter opens on 1 September.
