How many women over 40 have been laid off since 2015? -- Diversity figures are trade secrets at Oracle -- WHY?

Oracle and Palantir said diversity figures were trade secrets. The real secret: Embarrassing numbers

‘A very real threat’

Oracle argued that “there is a very real threat to its competitive position” if its workforce diversity were to be exposed. Any such advantage to a competitor, Oracle argued, “may have a very significant and detrimental impact on Oracle’s business.”

So watch out, investors – the competitive positions of Oracle, Palantir and Pandora are about to take a big hit. That’s if you believe the companies’ arguments that releasing their diversity numbers will cause “substantial competitive harm.”

Thanks to our lawsuit, we now know that just under 13 percent of Oracle’s executives in 2015 were women, including co-CEO Safra Catz. Two-thirds of major Silicon Valley companies had a better representation of female executives that year. And like Palantir, Oracle’s workforce was 90 percent white and Asian.

13% in 2015? Makes me wonder if that number is even lower today. I bet a lot of them were given severance packages. They probably hit a salary cap, and we all know the rumor that MH does not like women over 40.

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raising my hand.... also raising proxy hand for 2 other women in that age bracket that I worked with that got laid off. All of us long term Ora employees.

In the March Madness Massacaree did they RIF women over 40 and keep the cute young ones at HQ?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/18/oracle-women-workers-lawsuit-salaries-pay

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/18/ibm_government_lying_claims/

One of the things that really bothers me is how all these tech companies won’t talk about their diversity numbers but then pledge to make right by bringing figurehead women in at the upper levels. How in any way will this actually help us women in the field? Those women didn’t work their way up the ranks, experiencing what we have to experience everyday as the only woman on our teams or in every internal meeting we attend? They will never interact with us or help us enact real change. The reason to have more women throughout the company in management roles is that they have theoretically worked their way up from the bottom and can help other women with mentoring, advice and by voicing their experiences to upper management.

We aren’t asking for a free play, just a more equal playing field. Give us a referee whose actually watching the game, not schmoozing the commissioner. Most of us just want a foul to be called a foul and not run roughshod over because we wear our jockstrap between our shoulders and not our hips. Somehow, every one of my sales engineers appreciated my hard work, my sense of humor and dedication to learning. They made my time at Oracle bearable until they were taken away from me.

Count me as one of the chosen ones too.

Mafia takedown

@X0TshfP-3lyz I think you are right, this just may end being Enron 2.0. Showing my age here...

Everything is trade secret at Oracle; the bogus numbers, bogus Cloud business, bogus business practices, intense prosecution and defamation of those who dare to speak up, the corrupt practices, the anticompetitive practices....

It all will end, one day, with a large scandal....

-1jkz India is part of Asia...

Pushing -50 yrs and counting. Sad, really.

Assistants? Heck look at the wifes/ girlfriends - out with the old and in with a much younger one

Look no further than LE’s Exec Assistants who magically wanish once they come close to 30, like the vampire he wants fresh, young blood.

-1rso for me, too

"90% white AND asian" - purely false statement. Accordingly, SC Oracle has 30% of workforce in India (not to mention disproportional 75% management is from India)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/75-of-management-is-from-India-Oracle-CEO/articleshow/50938387.cms

And answer your question: we lost one too

Dinesours any way you look at it, on the wrong side of history, heading for extinction

It’s a new day, Larry. There is a reason for all the freshman Congresswomen in a record breaking class of new legislators. The women are coming for you and they are relentless. They will join your happily diversified competitors and bury your sorry, old, misogynistic a--. That will be a day of rejoicing🥂🍾

Also if the numbers were available year to year might see if certain groups shrank disproportionately from layoffs. Ugh.

Count me as another

This is LE’s private empire, how rude of outsiders to ask questions like this, or any kind of questions

Omertà

Vito Corleone wants everything to be a secret, no need for strangers to snoop around, not good for business. don’t you forget that and mind your own bloody business!

and...count me as another.

Well, yeah, next people may want to know how many DCs oracle actually has for all these great cloud offerings - answer: none; how much oracle actually generates in cloud revenues - answer: much less than oracle gives the impression of, who knows where it could all end. Oh, the tangled web they weave when they practice to deceive

Trade secret because (1) maybe highly skilled people with many choices would not want to work in place that is so medieval (2) customers might just say no if facts were made public

So fight to hide facts?

@X0TshfP-bzt, count me as another.

90% white AND asian. why report those as combined numbers? since when did asian not count as a diversity number? and what does asian mean? what if the women were asian?

Well, that argument is beyond stupid. What, your competition will sh-- their pants if they find out that you have only white males on board? Or die laughing at your numbers and you'll be liable for that?

And to answer your title question: count me as one.

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