Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees

KEY POINTS

1. Microsoft is offering voluntary exit buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada and India.
2. Internal messages and sources say the program covers staff across many groups — including AI teams such as Copilot and CoreAI — while some business units (marketing, security, certain commercial teams) are not participating.
3. This matters because the large, voluntary buyout program affects major parts of Microsoft's workforce including core AI teams, which could influence product roadmaps and talent availability for AI efforts.