Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees
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Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and India, with no age or tenure requirement. The package is equivalent to the company's standard severance, and Microsoft expects a much smaller share of employees to accept than took its spring retirement program.
Microsoft just offered buyouts to roughly a quarter of its entire workforce, and the announcement never once mentions AI or cost cutting. The real reason hiding in the spending figures tells a very different story.
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