Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce
Microsoft has confirmed voluntary buyout offers to roughly 60,000 employees, about a quarter of its global workforce, covering staff at level 70 and below in the US, Canada, India and the UK. The company presents the offer as an option for employees already considering leaving, and it follows years of cost management alongside heavy AI infrastructure and data-center spending. Why it matters: the sheer scale makes it one of the largest workforce restructurings of the AI spending era, achieved without a formal mass layoff.
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- Ars Technica2026-10-26 22:36
- Microsoft AI Blog2026-10-26 15:33