待翻譯：Oracle's 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments

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Investors have also been concerned about Oracle’s reliance on OpenAI, a customer that is not yet profitable and is reportedly losing billions of dollars a year. Analysts noted that Oracle’s workforce reduction will help the company’s cash flow. In March, Barclays said that Oracle makes less profit per employee than its rivals, CNBC reported at the time. In its SEC filing, Oracle said it spent $1.8 billion on restructuring costs in its fiscal year, which is a 481 percent increase from the prior fiscal year’s $374 million. Oracle also noted the drawbacks frequently associated with mass layoffs, including the potential for “reduced productivity” and “shortages of sufficiently skilled employees in certain roles, loss of valuable institutional knowledge, and damage to employee morale and retention.” “As our cloud and AI businesses grow, we will continually balance our resources and restructure our development group to help ensure we have the right people delivering the best cloud and AI products to our customers around the world,” Oracle said in a statement to CNBC. While generative AI has reignited concerns about AI taking over jobs, Oracle demonstrates one way AI can contribute to job losses beyond direct human replacements. That said, AI is increasingly common for companies to cite when letting workers go. “AI is now the leading reason companies give for cutting jobs, and the primary industry citing it is technology,” Andy Challenger, CRO at outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said in a May 2026 report released in June. “Technology, already the year’s biggest job cutter, saw its steepest cuts since early 2023, even as it remains the sector with the most hiring plans this year.” The outplacement firm reported in January that AI had been cited for 71,825 “job cut announcements” from 2023 to 2025.