Oracle Trying to Lure Workers to Nashville for New ‘Global’ HQ

Oracle Corp. is trying — and sometimes struggling — to attract workers to Nashville, where it is developing a massive riverfront headquarters.

The company is 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 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, ...