Microsoft offers buyouts to about 60,000 employees
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, across teams in the US, Canada, the UK and India.
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of the 223,000 full-time staff it had at the end of June, chief people officer Amy Coleman told employees on Oct 26. (TechCrunch; AP)
The offer covers vice presidents and below on participating teams in the US, Canada, the UK and India. Data center, sales and marketing staff are among those excluded. It follows a smaller buyout earlier this year and about 4,800 job cuts in July. (TechCrunch; AP)