Oracle Trying To Lure Workers To Nashville For New 'Global' HQ (bloomberg.com)
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- News link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/01/15/2114210/oracle-trying-to-lure-workers-to-nashville-for-new-global-hq
- Source link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/oracle-nashville-hq-trying-to-recruit-cloud-workers?leadSource=reddit_wall
> Oracle is trying -- and sometimes struggling -- to attract workers to Nashville, where it is developing a massive riverfront headquarters. The company is [1]hiring for more roles in Nashville than any other US city , with a special focus on jobs in its crucial cloud infrastructure unit. Oracle cloud workers based elsewhere say they've been offered tens of thousands of dollars in incentives to move. Chairman Larry Ellison [2]made a splash in April 2024 when he said Oracle would make Nashville its "world headquarters" just a few years after moving the software company from Redwood City, California, to Austin. His proclamation followed a 2021 tax incentive deal in which Oracle pledged to create 8,500 jobs in Nashville by 2031, paying an average salary above six figures.
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> "We're creating a world leading cloud and AI hub in Nashville that is attracting top talent locally, regionally, and from across the country," Oracle Senior Vice President Scott Twaddle said in a statement. "We've seen great success recruiting engineering and technical positions locally and will continue to hire aggressively for the next several years." Still, Oracle has a long way to go in its hiring goals. Today, it has about 800 workers assigned to offices in Nashville, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. That trails far behind the number of company employees in locations including Redwood City, Austin and Kansas City, the center of health records company Cerner, which Oracle acquired in 2022.
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> A lack of state income tax and the city's thriving music scene are touted by Oracle's promotional materials to attract talent to Nashville. Some new hires note they moved because in a tough tech job market, the Tennessee city was the only place with an Oracle position offered. To fit all of these workers, Oracle is planning a massive campus along the Cumberland River. It will feature over 2 million square feet of office space, a new cross-river bridge and a branch of the ultra high-end sushi chain Nobu, which has locations on many properties connected to Ellison, including the Hawaiian island of Lanai. [...] Oracle has been running recruitment events for the new hub. But a common concern for employees weighing a move is that Nashville is classified by Oracle in a lower geographic pay band than California or Seattle, meaning that future salary growth is likely limited, according to multiple workers who asked not to be identified discussing private information.
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> A weaker local tech job market also gives pause to some considering relocation. In addition, many of the roles in Nashville require five days a week in the office, which is a shift for Oracle, where a significant number of roles are remote. For a global company like Oracle, the exact meaning of "headquarters" can be a bit unclear. Austin remains the address included on company SEC filings and its executives are scattered across the country. The city where Oracle is hiring for the most positions globally is Bengaluru, the southern Indian tech hub. Still, Oracle is positioning Nashville to be at the center of its future. "We're developing our Nashville location to stand alongside Austin, Redwood Shores, and Seattle as a major innovation hub," Oracle writes on its recruitment site. "This is your chance to be part of it."
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/oracle-nashville-hq-trying-to-recruit-cloud-workers?leadSource=reddit_wall
[2] https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/2234216/oracle-is-moving-its-world-headquarters-to-nashville
Does the Apple Spaceship fly? (Score:2)
Asking for a friend.
Re: (Score:2)
Apple has been waiting for the fusion power reactor they ordered to be delivered in order to launch. It is still 30 years away.......
Twaddle? (Score:2)
How can you look at yourself in the mirror with a name like Twaddle, let alone expect anyone to take you seriously...
From Blue to Red states? (Score:1)
Or is it moving HQs from tax-the-rich to tax-the-rest states?
People want remote jobs (Score:2)
Stop telling them otherwise
Re: (Score:2)
they are telling us that AI is going to replace us all, the future is 'agentic' and there's no stopping progress
also corporate: we want you back in the office 100%.
they are psychopaths.
Be so for real (Score:2)
"We're creating a world leading cloud and AI hub in Nashville that is attracting top talent locally, regionally, and from across the country,"
Just saying it out loud makes me giggle.
Second thought is they didn't specify which "country"...
If you get laid off from oracle (Score:2)
How are you going to find another blue chip tech job in nashville? If oracle is the only big tech employer in the area, when they tell you to jump you ask how high. The tech job market in the bay area is not amazing right now but if I got laid off tomorrow, I could walk across the street and be making 80% of what I am right now before my 2 weeks severance ran out.
If Oracle lays you off it's an emergency; you have to sell your house and move back to california or some other tech hub, likely 1000+ mil
Nashville has issues (Score:3)
Setting aside the lack of remote work problem, which is internal to Oracle itself, Nashville has issues which IMO could make it unattractive to move to:
- It's already a tourist magnet, so any of the music or other "entertainment venues" are often swarmed with clueless out-of-town tourists and the inevitable roving gangs of drunken Woo-Girls.
- Housing prices in the city itself are outrageous, and not getting better. Recent reappraisals are going to end up driving people out of their now super-expensive homes.
- The schools in the city vary from "pretty good" through "just OK" to "yeah, no." A lot of it depends on where you live, which is unfortunate.
- The mass transit infrastructure consists of buses, but primarily only in the Nashville proper, and a single rail line that runs only to the east. There are a LOT of surrounding counties where folks who work in Nashville live, most of which don't have access to those.
- (We're not even going to discuss the 'Tesla Tunnel' nonsense.)
- Housing prices in those same surrounding counties can also be outrageous, sometimes even higher than Nashville itself.
- The schools in some surrounding counties are genuinely and consistently good...but you can map that directly to the housing prices. You get what you pay for.
- The road infrastructure leading to those surrounding counties is about to get worse with the introduction of the euphemistically named "Choice Lanes" (toll roads), because, you know, outsourcing lane availability to private corporations and reducing the number available to us plebs makes everything better, right?
- The rollback of even the most basic emissions testing will probably degrade air quality in the coming years. It used to be worse, it got better, probably headed back the wrong way now I suspect.
The TL;DR of all the above is: It's a genuine "It city" now, with all the problems that implies.
(Full disclosure, I've lived in the Nashville area for over 3 decades now, and I was even here for a bit before that while they were still blasting I-440.)
I like Nashville (Score:3)
...but I don't want to work for Oracle.