📅 Oct 27, 2026
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, as AI spending climbs.
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Staff at vice president level and below on select teams in the US, Canada, UK and India can take the offer. Some data center, sales and marketing groups are excluded.
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Eligible employees get financial support and career planning help, with severance of one month of base salary per year of service, plus health coverage. December 1 is reportedly the deadline to confirm.
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The company is trimming labor costs to fund huge AI infrastructure bets, including data centers and computing hardware. It had 223,000 employees at the end of June, down from 228,000 at the end of 2025.
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Microsoft is not alone: Google and Meta have also trimmed headcounts to fund AI. This is its second voluntary buyout offer this year, after an April early-retirement offer about 30% of eligible staff took.
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