TIME(@TIME):Up to 30,000 workers were laid off by Oracle in the last month as the company pivots toward AI. Former employees have been sharing stories in private message threads and on social media; many say they were told to train AI systems that would replace them, laid off by a single email after decades of service, left facing deportation without after losing work-dependent visas, and stripped of thousands of dollars in unvested stock bonuses. TIME reporter Andrew Chow speaks with some of the people laid off from Oracle for this episode of AI, Explained by Humans. Read more:

2026.05.13 15:34

Up to 30,000 workers were laid off by Oracle in the last month as the company pivots toward AI. Former employees have been sharing stories in private message threads and on social media; many say they were told to train AI systems that would replace them, laid off by a single email after decades of service, left facing deportation without after losing work-dependent visas, and stripped of thousands of dollars in unvested stock bonuses. TIME reporter Andrew Chow speaks with some of the people laid off from Oracle for this episode of AI, Explained by Humans. Read more: