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Oracle (ORCL)
Software with counts by line of business. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2026-05-31, filed 2026-06-22. Ranked 9 of the 24 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states employees by line of business and by U.S. and international, so every pattern share is a stated count.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 24% now, 54% at the end of 2027, 68% at the end of 2028, 75% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 75% desk work, 22% people work and 3% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 26% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 57% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
141,000 employees as of 2026-05-31 (stated). Approximately 49,000 of 141,000 employees are in the U.S. and 92,000 international.
The filing: “As of May 31, 2026, we employed approximately 141,000 full-time employees, of which approximately 49,000 were employed in the U.S. and approximately 92,000 were employed internationally.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Software Publishers | 56% | By (a): the filing's counts by line of business give research and development 43,000, sales and marketing 25,000 and general and administrative 11,000, 79,000 of 141,000, the staff of a software publisher as BLS counts it. |
| Computer Systems Design and Related Services | 24% | By (a): the filing states 34,000 employees in services, which it describes as consulting, support and education for its products, the computer systems design pattern. |
| Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services | 18% | By (a): the filing states 26,000 employees in cloud and software, the line that runs its cloud infrastructure and software delivery, read into the computing infrastructure pattern by the line's own name. |
| Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing | 1% | By (a): the filing states 2,000 employees in hardware, a stated count, read into the computer equipment manufacturing pattern. |
What the filing says about the workforce: All full-time; by line of business: cloud and software 26,000, services 34,000, sales and marketing 25,000, research and development 43,000, hardware 2,000, general and administrative 11,000; average tenure about eight years; none of the U.S. employees union-represented.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Software Publishers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Microsoft (MSFT, 223,000 employees)24% now, 69% by 2028
- Salesforce, Inc. (CRM, 83,334 employees)23% now, 69% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
70 sentences in the filing name AI. AI runs through the filing as product and development focus (AI technologies embedded in Oracle Cloud offerings, the Oracle AI Database); the human capital section describes training, tenure and surveys without naming AI.
- “Our products and services include enterprise applications and infrastructure offerings that incorporate and are enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including embedded AI-driven automation and analytics and generative AI capabilities.”
- “AI technologies embedded in Oracle Cloud offerings are designed to support the improvement of our customers' existing and new workflows and business processes, including automation and data analyses.”
- “Oracle software offerings include Oracle Applications, Oracle AI Database and Oracle Middleware software license offerings, among others, which customers deploy using IT infrastructure from the Oracle Cloud or their own IT environments.”
- “We focus our development efforts on improving the performance, security, reliability, operation, integration and cost-effectiveness of our offerings relative to our competitors; facilitating the ease with which organizations are able to deploy, use, manage and maintain our offerings; and incorporating emerging technologies, such as AI, within our offerings to enable leaner business processes, a...”
- “We believe that our Oracle Cloud offerings, which have built-in AI capabilities, represent opportunities for us to continue to expand our business.”
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 141,000 | 2026-06-22 | 10-K |
| 2025-05-31 | 162,000 | 2025-06-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-05-31 | 159,000 | 2024-06-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-05-31 | 164,000 | 2023-06-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-05-31 | 143,000 | 2022-06-21 | 10-K |
| 2021-05-31 | 132,000 | 2021-06-21 | 10-K |
| 2020-05-31 | 135,000 | 2020-06-22 | 10-K |
| 2019-05-31 | 136,000 | 2019-06-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-05-31 | 137,000 | 2018-06-22 | 10-K |
| 2017-05-31 | 138,000 | 2017-06-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-05-31 | 136,000 | 2016-06-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-05-31 | 132,000 | 2015-06-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-05-31 | 122,000 | 2014-06-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-05-31 | 120,000 | 2013-06-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-05-31 | 115,000 | 2012-06-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-05-31 | 108,000 | 2011-06-28 | 10-K |
| 2010-05-31 | 105,000 | 2010-07-01 | 10-K |
| 2009-05-31 | 86,000 | 2009-06-29 | 10-K |
| 2008-05-31 | 84,233 | 2008-07-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-05-31 | 74,674 | 2007-06-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-05-31 | 56,133 | 2006-07-21 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The cloud and software line is read into the infrastructure pattern by its name; the filing does not say how much of it is data center operations.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-277521, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Oracle's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 24% now and 68% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Oracle's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Oracle employ?
- 141,000 as of May 31, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending May 31, 2026 states. About 35% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Oracle's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 4 industry staffing patterns, the largest Software Publishers; by those patterns the work is about 75% desk work, 22% people work and 3% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Oracle's annual report say about AI?
- 70 sentences in the filing name AI. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 1, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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