Report: 60,000 Microsoft staff offered voluntary termination as dotcom veteran urges 'go early' on job hunt
SumitGup · x · 2026-10-27
Account @LayoffAI reports that nearly 1 in 3 Microsoft employees (around 60,000) are being offered voluntary termination, with emails going out shortly — unverified by Microsoft. Reposting it, @barnabasdotexe shares advice from a dotcom-era graybeard: in a layoff tsunami, be the first to look for a job. The "valuable" person who hangs on to the very end ends up searching in a completely saturated market. Go early.
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