Microsoft to reportedly offer buyouts to 60,000 employees in latest cuts
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India.
Key points
- The buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.
- 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 […].
- This is the latest of several trimmings Microsoft has made to its workforce this year.
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India.
The company announced in April that it was offering voluntary retirement to about 7% of its US workforce, which consisted of about 125,000 employees at the time.
Microsoft is trying to balance a rapid AI infrastructure build-out with capital efficiency.
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