Microsoft offers early buyouts to 60,000 employees, dwarfing its headcount years ago
Technovangelist · x · 2026-10-27
Microsoft is offering early buyout packages to 60,000 employees — a number exceeding the company's entire headcount in the poster's era there. If 30% accept, that could mean 10-20k employees leaving, including possibly 4-5k in Seattle alone.
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