By Chloe Godding
Publication Date: 2026-04-01 16:44:00
Oracle is cutting more than 500 employees in Kansas City, according to a company filing Tuesday. Oracle, a major technology company, has submitted a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice to the Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce informing that the company will terminate 539 employees at its campus at 8779 Hillcrest Road in Kansas City. The campus will not be closed, 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 scheduled to leave their positions between May 26th and June 1st. The positions being eliminated range from administrative assistants to sales representatives to IT directors. Among the biggest cuts were software developers, who accounted for nearly 100 of all laid-off employees. KMBC 9 reached out to Oracle, but the company declined to comment on the layoffs.