Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 workers as it invests more in AI

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Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to astir 60,000 employees, oregon astir one-quarter of its planetary workforce, arsenic the exertion elephantine invests much successful artificial intelligence, according to Agence France-Presse.

So-called voluntary exit offers are disposable to eligible employees successful Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the U.S., Microsoft said in announcing the buyout programme connected Monday. Employees indispensable beryllium astatine the vice president level oregon beneath to suffice for a buyout.

"This connection gives eligible employees who whitethorn beryllium considering a aboriginal extracurricular the institution a caller prime to marque that modulation present with support," Amy Coleman, Microsoft's main radical officer, said successful a memo to employees.

The exit programme is the 2nd voluntary buyout connection Microsoft has offered workers this year. In April, the institution reportedly offered astir 7% of its U.S. workforce the enactment to discontinue early.

Microsoft had 223,000 employees globally astatine the extremity of June, down from 228,000 astatine the extremity of 2025, according to regulatory filings. Around 27% of Microsoft's workforce is eligible for the caller buyout offer, according to AFP.

The connection is disposable to mid-level workers for what Microsoft said was a constricted play of time. It's designed to fto them permission the institution with fiscal padding and career-planning resources, portion allowing the institution to prevention connected labour costs.

Eligible employees volition beryllium made alert of the connection by email connected Monday, Coleman said.

Workers successful immoderate concern units are ineligible for the buyout, the institution said. They see employees focused connected information centers and those who enactment successful income and marketing, Bloomberg reported, citing a institution spokesperson.

Edited by Alain Sherter

Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.

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