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Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees
Original: Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyout packages to around 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, according to Ars Technica. The program would let staff leave with severance rather than face potential future layoffs. The report is drawing heavy discussion as readers weigh what it signals about Microsoft's cost-cutting plans and the broader tech industry's ongoing wave of job reductions.
Why now: The scale of the offer, affecting up to a quarter of Microsoft's employees, is striking and fuels speculation about layoffs and restructuring in big tech.
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