Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as AI leads to efficiency push
2026-10-27 · Tech
Microsoft is kindly offering 60,000 employees the chance to 'voluntarily' leave as the company pivots to letting AI do their jobs instead. Nothing says 'we value our people' like spending billions on AI infrastructure while handing out buyout packages to the humans who built the company. Capital efficiency — that's corporate-speak for 'robots are cheaper.'