Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees
Original title: Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs
Staff in the US, UK, Canada and India have until December to accept terms close to ordinary severance.
Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to about 60,000 employees in the US, UK, Canada and India, wider than a retirement offer to about 9,000 earlier this year. The Verge links the offer to Satya Nadella's plan to lower people costs while spending more on AI infrastructure. Headcount was about 223,000 as of June 30, about 5,000 fewer than in 2025. Separately, Forza lead Dan Greenawalt is retiring as Turn 10 merges into Playground Games.
Unconfirmed: How many will accept, and whether November or January layoffs follow, is not known.
- More than 30 percent of the earlier 9,000 eligibles took a retirement offer.
- A 5 percent acceptance of the new offer would still be about 3,000 people.
- Microsoft cut 4,800 jobs months earlier, mainly in Xbox and commercial sales.
- Overall headcount fell year over year for the first time in a decade.
From the original article
12 min read at theverge.com
To anyone listening closely to what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been saying over the past couple of years, this week felt like the clearest sign yet that AI is about to fundamentally change the size of Microsoft's workforce. Microsoft is now offering voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India.
By Tom Warren · theverge.com
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