‘Permanent’: Oracle lays off over 500 KC-area employees, tech company says

Over 500 people were laid off from Oracle’s Kansas City campus, new documents show, following worldwide layoffs at the global tech and software company that could reportedly hit tens of thousands of people.

Oracle filed a notice with the state of Missouri that the company will be terminating employees at its Kansas City Campus facility, 8779 Hillcrest Rd. The campus is not closing, according to the notice.

“It is anticipated that these layoffs will be permanent,” the notice says.

KC-area employees were notified through March 31 and will officially lose their jobs between May 26 and June 1, according to the notice.

A long list of roles were impacted — ranging from administrative assistants, sales reps, technical managers, IT directors, marketing specialists, analysts, compliance directors, software developers and more — totaling 539 workers losing their jobs.

Oracle acquired local health care information technology company Cerner in June 2022 for $28.3 billion. Bloomberg reported March 5 that thousands of jobs were planned to be cut in Oracle. Unnamed sources from the report speculated that some cuts were targeting roles that AI would “help make redundant.”

According to Oracle’s website, the company has had 162,000 employees and earned $57 billion of revenue in fiscal 2025.

This story was originally published April 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM.