Oracle cuts another 70 jobs in Ireland as its Israel operation keeps hiring
The latest layoffs come after Oracle eliminated around 21,000 positions globally to help fund its costly AI infrastructure push. No significant recent cuts are known in Israel, where the company is believed to employ 400-500 people.
Oracle is cutting another 70 jobs in Ireland as it continues a sweeping global restructuring aimed at reducing costs and redirecting resources toward artificial intelligence infrastructure. Yet while layoffs have spread across Oracle's operations in the United States, Ireland and elsewhere, its Israeli operation appears to be telling a different story.
Oracle Israel, which is believed to employ around 400 to 500 people, has not been known to have experienced any significant recent layoffs. At the same time, Oracle's careers site currently lists 33 openings in Israel, including several roles directly tied to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Among them are network development positions focused on the reliability and operation of Oracle's cloud network infrastructure, as well as a senior technical operations role in Petah Tikva supporting Oracle Cloud production environments. Other major Oracle locations, including India and Ireland, currently have no listed openings.
Oracle has already eliminated over 21,000 jobs globally, or about 13% of its workforce, as it restructures the business while dramatically increasing spending on data centers and AI infrastructure.
The latest cuts are in Ireland, where Oracle has told employees it plans to eliminate another 70 positions. The company began a collective redundancy process this week, with most of the planned cuts concentrated in engineering and development, alongside some positions in sales and finance.
Oracle had already eliminated around 150 jobs in Ireland this year. Following those earlier cuts, the company employs approximately 650 people in the country.
The Irish reductions are the latest in a series of layoffs at Oracle this year. Oracle began another round of cuts in September, although the company did not disclose the number of employees affected and it was unclear at the time whether the reductions extended to Israel.
Further details later emerged showing that 546 employees in Oracle's America Cloud Infrastructure organization were affected. Software developers, infrastructure engineers and managers were among those hit hardest.
The cuts are part of a much larger restructuring. Oracle reduced its global workforce by approximately 21,000 employees during fiscal 2026, bringing headcount to around 141,000. Research and development lost about 7,000 employees, sales and marketing about 6,000, while cloud and services each lost roughly 3,000.
Oracle has also continued to increase the expected cost of the restructuring. In September, the company raised its projected restructuring costs by another $700 million, bringing the expected total to approximately $2.8 billion. The expenses include severance, contract terminations and other exit costs.
The layoffs make more sense when viewed alongside where Oracle is putting its money.
The company is engaged in a massive expansion of its cloud infrastructure, building data centers and increasing its capacity to support the growing demand for AI computing.
Oracle reported $28.5 billion in capital expenditures in its latest quarter, compared with $8.5 billion a year earlier. It has maintained a forecast for fiscal 2027 capital expenditures of between $90 billion and $95 billion.
Oracle's new CFO, Hilary Maxson, has described the restructuring as an effort to become more selective about where the company puts its money and employees' time, rather than simply asking workers to do more with less.
The company's workforce reductions have also been explicitly linked to AI. Oracle said in its annual report that the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across its operations had resulted, and could continue to result, in workforce reductions.
