Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India.
Key points
- In a message to employees, Microsoft chief people officer Amy Coleman writes that this gives staff members "the opportunity to leave Microsoft with financial support and career planning resources" as the company looks to trim staff without another […].
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India.
Microsoft is trying to balance a rapid AI infrastructure build-out with capital efficiency.
The buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.
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