Take a deep breath DawentsIT Readers! It’s Friday and today I’m taking you inside the “complete chaos” at Oracle as layoffs and restructuring roil the database giant.
By the way, apologies for yesterday — we had a technical issue. (Fitting for a tech newsletter!)
Let’s Get To It:
ALL THINGS TECHNOLOGY NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY
1.Oracle insiders describe “complete chaos” from layoffs and restructuring. Earlier this week, Oracle began a sizable layoff, potentially impacting thousands of employees — and those who haven’t yet been laid off are scrambling to figure out whether they’ll be next.
*The hardest-hit units, current and former employees said, were in the marketing and customer experience divisions. Some marketing teams have seen their headcount slashed by anywhere from 30% to 50%.
*In some cases, they said, managers were given the choice of who would get cut, while others had no say in how the layoffs would affect their teams.
*The Advertising and Customer Experience team was said to have been cut, too. “The common verb to describe ACX is that they were obliterated,” one employee said.
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6.Fifteen current and former Apple female employees say the company dismissed claims of misconduct. After the Financial Times reported the HR unit retaliated against some of them after speaking up about the incidents, Apple vowed to “make changes.”
7.Startup founders’ mental health is crumbling. Dried-up funding and the stress of a turbulent economic year has piled stress on founders who are already trying to do the impossible: build iconic tech companies.
8.Elon Musk denied that he’s planning to build his own private airport in Texas. Local news site Austonia reported last week that an airport could help grow his companies in the region, but Musk said that’s “not true” and it “would be silly.”
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