Oracle, others continue tech industry layoff trend

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It's been a brutal few months for the tech world, with tens of thousands of job losses across industry giants, such as Microsoft, Cloudflare, Meta, Intuit and Oracle. In most cases, artificial intelligence has been cited as a cause – either by making some jobs obsolete or prompting leadership decisions to make room for other AI investments.

When Oracle first announced a significant reduction in force in March, it impacted employees across the organization, including in its health division. Many workers tried to fight back to improve their severance packages.

But it appears the total of 30,000 layoffs will be complete by June 15, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act filings made March 31 and April 1. Under WARN, employees terminated in mass layoffs are entitled to 60 days' notice before the date of termination.

The cloud giant has said it is focusing resources on a continued expansion of its presence in Nashville, Tennessee, to support artificial intelligence growth.

These AI-driven job losses are part of a trend that's indelibly marked the first half of 2026, and health tech is not immune to it. Some companies are now implementing their own notable AI-related staffing reductions.

In recent news, healthcare unicorn Innovaccer laid off more than 300 employees in a corporate restructuring following the company's acquisition of CaduceusHealth, a revenue cycle management company.

And while recent job cuts at Salesforce are small by comparison – 86 employees across three divisions – the fact that some of these cuts were made to Agentforce staff is notable. The company recently filed its WARN notice in California, Business Insider reported this week.

Salesforce recently disclosed that Agentforce had crossed the $1 billion mark in annualized revenue, according to Yahoo! News.

This past year, athenahealth began offering its electronic health record customers access to Agentforce, which offers agentic workflows for inpatient visit summaries, missed appointments, care gaps and pharmacy orders.

In March, Salesforce released six more agentic tools for healthcare. The company began working on prebuilt AI tools for providers and other organizations two years ago.

Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.Email: [email protected]Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.