Microsoft Offers Voluntary Severance to 60,000 Staff
Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce. This is the second such programme this year. Its headcount has stayed flat at around 223,000 since 2022, even as it plans to spend about $170 billion on AI infrastructure while protecting teams critical to AI work.
Quick glossaryMicrosoft, voluntary severance, AI infrastructure
- Microsoft
- An American software giant best known for Windows, the Office apps and its Azure cloud computing service.
- voluntary severance
- A payment package offered to employees who agree to leave their jobs, rather than being forced out.
- AI infrastructure
- The physical computers, chips and data centres needed to build and run artificial intelligence systems.
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