Oracle’s Kansas City campus lays off more than 500 employees
By Chloe Godding
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — Oracle in Kansas City is cutting more than 500 employees, according to a notice filed by the company on Tuesday.
Oracle, a major technology company, submitted a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice to the Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce, informing it that the company will be terminating 539 employees from its campus at 8779 Hillcrest Road in Kansas City.
The campus is not closing, Oracle said. The layoffs are expected to be permanent.
Oracle said in its WARN notice that affected employees were notified between March 27 and March 31. These employees are set to leave their positions between May 26 and June 1.
Positions being cut range from administrative assistants to sales representatives to IT directors. Some of the largest cuts were to software developers, who made up nearly 100 of the total employees laid off.
KMBC 9 reached out to Oracle, but the company declined to comment on the layoffs.
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