Oracle is having trouble attracting workers to its “world headquarters” in Nashville, even with a 2 million-square-foot office and Larry Ellison’s favorite restaurant

oracle is trying to convince reluctant tech workers to join its “world headquarters” in Nashville, Tennessee, by promising brand new, spacious office space and an on-site Nobu restaurant.

A few years after Oracle moved its headquarters from Redwood City, California, to Austin, Texas, co-founder Larry Ellison publicly declared Nashville his “world headquarters.”

“It is the center of our future,” Ellison, the company’s chief technology officer and former CEO, said in 2024 of Nashville’s increasing importance to Oracle.

The company invested $1.2 billion over a decade and promised to create 8,500 jobs in the region. That same year, Tennessee leaders handed over the company a $65 million economic grant to “offset the costs incurred by businesses in expanding or locating a business” in the state.

As part of Oracle’s development in the city, the company invested $175 million in infrastructure improvements such as parking areas on the east bank of the…