Oracle layoffs include workers in Pierce and Thurston counties
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- Oracle filed WARN for 491 Washington layoffs; ~20 in South Sound.
- Seventeen employees listed in Pierce/Thurston across several cities.
- Company cited reduction in force; filing noted offices were not closing.
Layoff documentation provided to the state of Washington by tech giant Oracle shows its cuts affecting a widespread area, including workers in Pierce and Thurston counties.
Oracle listed individual worker locations in its Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed on March 31 with the state’s Employment Security Department. The filing cited “a reduction in force and other terminations,” with the bulk of the cuts targeting two company offices in Seattle as well as remote workers. The filing noted the offices were not closing.
The layoffs in the filing on March 31 totaled 491 employees in Washington state, including nearly 20 in the South Sound region.
Among those affected, 17 positions included Oracle employees in Olympia, Lacey, Gig Harbor, Tacoma, Ruston, Auburn and Bonney Lake.
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., which also filed a layoff notice the same week affecting nearly 170 workers in the state, did not specify locations of its remote workers.
The company, which specializes in database management and cloud computing, seeks to grow its artificial intelligence work and increase data center investments. Business Insider on March 31 reported that the job cuts totaled in the thousands, and in turn the company was boosting its data center infrastructure spending.
An email sent to affected workers the morning of March 31 stated that the cuts were part of a “broader organizational change.”
“As a result, today is your last working day,” the email stated, according to Business Insider, which reviewed the email.
The Seattle Times reported on March 31 that including the latest round of layoffs, Oracle has let go of 757 workers in the state since last year.
This story was originally published April 1, 2026 at 1:42 PM.
