Oracle says employees use ChatGPT Work and Codex to speed up recruiting research, business reporting and incident response across the company.
OpenAI’s October 8, 2026 customer profile describes Oracle employees using ChatGPT Work and Codex in recruiting, business operations and production engineering. The profile reports 130,000 active ChatGPT users and more than 95,000 active Codex users at Oracle; it does not specify how many employees use both products.
In talent acquisition, Oracle built a tool that uses a job description to research comparable roles, compensation and candidate pools in relevant locations. OpenAI says compiling that research previously took two to four days; Oracle’s senior vice president and global head of talent acquisition, Jan Ackerman, said recruiters now prepare with the tool in about 15 to 20 minutes. OpenAI reports a 98% decrease in the time required for talent acquisition research.
Oracle Applications Lab also uses Codex with an internal map of company data objects, relationships and rules. Employees can ask business questions in plain language, which the system turns into SQL queries and uses to return analyses, reports or applications. Oracle executive Richard Lam said a task that could take a business user hours was answered almost immediately, with results matching the previous manual process.
For incident response, Oracle site reliability engineers use Codex to collect incident context and surface relevant playbooks. Lam said a typical simple incident that once took an hour to resolve can now be handled in minutes. The profile says these workflows are not fully autonomous: employees remain responsible for system design, security and reviewing outputs. Lam also cautioned that teams need to work alongside Codex to keep generated code maintainable.
The examples position Oracle’s deployment as a mix of knowledge retrieval, workflow assistance and software development—not a single company-wide automated system. OpenAI says the tools are used across Oracle’s talent acquisition, applications lab and IT organization, while the company’s staff remain accountable for the systems and results.
