Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as AI leads to efficiency push — from cnbc.com by Jordan Novet

Key Points
  • Around 60,000 Microsoft employees are eligible for the new buyout program across four countries, said a person familiar with the matter.
  • The move comes six months after Microsoft announced its first-ever voluntary retirement program to a small set of U.S. workers.
  • Employees must decide whether to take the offer in early December, and those participating will leave on Dec. 31.

Around 60,000 people are eligible, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named while discussing an internal matter. The effort affects about 27% of Microsoft’s total workforce of 223,000 people.