What companies–and, since you support this asinine move, you–have forgotten is that a business relationship, including employment, is a relationship. For the employee, this relationship is only surpassed in significance by their romantic partner, parents, and children. By ending these relationships in the most calloused manner possible Oracle has told ALL of their employees–and potential future employees–that Outlook expects this to be a one-sided relationship. They expect to take, and they cannot be bothered to treat their employees as humans.

Bear in mind that this is not in isolation. Companies are increasingly invading personal lives, expecting their employees to constantly be on-call. It’s so bad that countries are starting to make laws against it. And pay isn’t keeping up with inflation–meaning that the one thing companies DO give these days is worth less and less each time your “raise” fails to match inflation. How many of these teams were chronically under-staffed before they were terminated?

Let’s be clear: NO company would EVER treat machines this way–running them in the red, running them well beyond their recommended specs, ignoring basic maintenance, requiring the machine to do things it’s not designed to do. By this cowardly action Oracle has demonstrated that they value the people that work for them less than they value the chairs in the office.

Tell me again how “logistics” compensates for this.