krishh nair

I am the SVP of Workforce Planning at Oracle. I scheduled the email for 6 AM. Because at 6 AM, people are alone. They haven't carpooled yet. They haven't had the conversation in the elevator where someone says "did you get it too" and suddenly forty of them are in a conference room asking questions we'd prefer not to answer. At 6 AM, a person reads an email alone at their kitchen table. That's organizational design. We eliminated approximately 18% of the global workforce. I've been asked to stop giving the range. The board prefers "approximately." Approximately doesn't require counting, and counting requires acknowledging these were individual people. System access was revoked within minutes. An employee who can still log in feels like an employee. A former employee refreshes their personal email and waits for the severance PDF. We modeled the timeline. The window between reading the email and attempting to badge into the building is approximately twelve minutes. We revoked access at minute four. Oracle posted a 95% jump in net income last quarter. We made a $124 billion bet on AI infrastructure, and the fastest source of cash flow is the people who built the products we're now replacing with the infrastructure we went into debt to build. The workers funded their own obsolescence. Stock rose 4% on the announcement. The market looked at 30,000 salaries converting into debt service and called it a buy signal. The people who made the bet will be paid regardless of how it turns out. The people who got the 6 AM email will not. I scheduled the next one for 6 AM too.