{"id":3337,"date":"2026-10-27T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:03:54","slug":"microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-around-60000-employees-to-contain-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3337","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees to contain costs"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Microsoft said on Monday it is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or more than a quarter of its global workforce, as the technology giant looks to \u200bcontain costs and help fund its massive AI investments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Staffers across the Windows maker \u200cwould be eligible for the offers, including those working in AI experiences, Copilot, finance, human resources, Xbox and Windows + Devices, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, requesting anonymity as the matter was \u200bprivate.<\/p>\n

Units such as marketing, commercial business and security will be excluded, the source \u200badded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis offer gives eligible employees who may be considering a future outside \u2060the company a new choice to make that transition now with support.<\/p>\n

It also \u200bgives participating organisations another way to adapt their workforce to changing needs,\u201c Chief People Officer Amy \u200bColeman said in a staff memo.<\/p>\n

Like other tech giants, Microsoft is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI data centres and chips, drawing scrutiny from investors over whether the returns will justify the staggering \u200bcost.<\/p>\n

The company, slated to report first-quarter results after markets close on Wednesday, has \u200bforecast $175 billion in capital expenditures for the 2026 calendar year.<\/p>\n

Microsoft had 223,000 full-time employees globally as of June \u200c30, \u20602026, according to its annual filing.<\/p>\n

Shares of Microsoft, which had risen about 10% this year, were up about 1% on Monday. The development was first reported by Business Insider.<\/p>\n

The company earlier this year offered voluntary buyouts to about 7% of its US workforce, or about 9,000 employees.<\/p>\n

In \u200bJuly, Microsoft announced it would \u200bcut 4,800 jobs<\/a>, \u2060or about 2.1% of its global workforce, overhauling its Xbox gaming business and divesting up to five studios as it looks to boost \u200breturns after years of heavy investment in the division.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis offer will \u200bbe available \u2060to eligible employees in participating teams in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States at level 70 and below,\u201d Microsoft said on Monday.<\/p>\n

The company said it was a time-limited, voluntary \u2060program \u200band built on insights gained from a previous voluntary \u200bretirement program.<\/p>\n

The eligible employees will receive details within the next few hours, it added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft said on Monday it is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or more than a quarter of its global workforce, as the technology giant looks to \u200bcontain costs and help fund its massive AI investments. Staffers across the Windows maker \u200cwould be eligible for the offers, including those working in AI experiences, Copilot, finance, human resources, Xbox and Windows + Devices, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, requesting anonymity as the matter was \u200bprivate. Units such as marketing, commercial business and security will be excluded, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}