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Tracking participants count #general Slack channel in Oracle One workspace
#general on Oracle One
Hm, for the past 8h, general count went up in Slack #general on Oracle One workspace from 168771 on 6am UTC to 168824 (+53 added back) now. I wonder if access was restored in some location, or more likely some company was acquired before or now and their employees got integrated. Or something else. I hope admins didn't catchup to the fact how easy is to track through Slack and didn't start messing up with this metric for obfuscation purposes.
Anyway, I will discount these 53 to avoid messing up with layoff totals starting from tonight totals. However, it means I lost layoffs between 6am UTC to 1pm UTC on September 05, which is Asia and Pacific.
September 05, last 24h layoffs total: 187, none in American timezones.
September totals, except Sep01: 4025
Methodology: tracking #general Slack channel participants count, since typically access is cut right away and you can see it immediately in Slack.
Numbers as of this post.
Total # under Larry and Saffra per Aria. This # should include all that were notified and given an end date of Sep 22, Oct 3, etc. = 177,930
Total # in Slack #General, Should represent all active employees, ie this would not include those that have had access revoked. = 168,872
177,930 - 168,872 = 9,058
Yes, American timezone layoffs halted at the moment judging by #general Slack channel participants count.
I think they will move to other regions now. However, there's a good chance it will return back before October, as CX former Rob's org which recently folded under Fusion Chris's org was not touched yet, which looks very suspicious. It was expected to be trimmed the most due to redundancies. On the other hand, Rob was purging CX for years, may be not much meat left.
Sep03 total layoffs estimate for the past 24h: 408.
North America contributed less than half and layoffs there trickled down and stop first half of the day. However, other locations picked up in IDC and Pacific timezones.
Totals since Sep02: 3838
Methodology: #general Slack channel participants tracking.
64,259 employees under Larry
113,742 under Safra
Total in ARIA of 178,001
Believe ARIA includes contractors
169,217 in #general
1.50am UK Time 4th Sep
#general Oracle One had 161k in March 2023. It was 178k on 8/28/25 and now at 169k
Yesterday I think it was over 172k then drooped to 169K. So what iat now?
68 laid off for the past 1.5h, which is just east coast
Tracking is easy with writing down participants count in #general slack channel, as it reflects loss of access and is the best real-time approximation available.
September 2nd night started with 172796, now it's 169220
If anyone within Oracle doesn't mind having a look at Oracle One #general slack channel and giving us a membership count...yesterday it seems like about 4,000 were impacted. We appreciate it.
If they disappear from Slack, it's a sure indicator they lost access. Everyone is automatically subscribed to #general Slack channel and nobody bothers to leave it, so it's the best approximator of layoffs with immediate loss of access. It's very unlikely those are catchup disconnects from 2 weeks back.
yes tracking members of #general is the way to go
#watercooler numbers can go up or down as other slack orgs add the channel for people to announce they are gone!
3430 for the past 24 hours based on #general participants count change
#general started from 172796 starting today.
So far 3k jobs were lost today alone
The best way is via the #general channel which was about 172k a few hours ago and now it's under 170k.
#general oracle one had 173k and now 169k