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Microsoft offers buyouts to about 60,000 staff to protect AI spending
Microsoft opened a Voluntary Exit Offer to about 60,000 employees in participating teams in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and India, roughly 27% of a workforce of 223,000, chief people officer Amy Coleman said in a memo. The package matches standard severance but omits the extended healthcare that drew staff to April's retirement programme; eligible employees decide in early December and leave on 31 December. Microsoft said the offer does not replace layoffs.