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Microsoft Initiates Voluntary Buyouts for 60,000 Employees Amid Major Restructuring, Including Xbox Staff

Microsoft Initiates Voluntary Buyouts for 60,000 Employees Amid Major Restructuring, Including Xbox Staff

Microsoft offers voluntary exit buyouts to more than a quarter of its existing workforce including Xbox
Microsoft offers voluntary exit buyouts to more than a quarter of its existing workforce including Xbox

When is a firing technically not a firing? When it’s a voluntary exit offer. That’s what’s being attempted by Microsoft, as it has sent out a memo to employees that offers them a package of...

Microsoft has offered a quarter of its entire workforce redundancy
Microsoft has offered a quarter of its entire workforce redundancy

Up to 60,000 workers could leave in Microsoft's latest attempt to slimline its business

Amid sweeping layoffs at Xbox and massive AI investments, Microsoft introduces a "Voluntary Exit Offer" to 60,000 workers
Amid sweeping layoffs at Xbox and massive AI investments, Microsoft introduces a "Voluntary Exit Offer" to 60,000 workers

Xbox isn't the only Microsoft division looking to massively reduce worker headcounts. In fact, Microsoft has just announced a "Voluntary Exit Offer" that will essentially pay staff to move in...

Xbox staff among up to 60,000 Microsoft employees offered voluntary exit
Xbox staff among up to 60,000 Microsoft employees offered voluntary exit

Microsoft is offering voluntary exit to employees. Read more

With Xbox cuts not done, Microsoft offer voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 workers across the company in latest attempt to get rid of staff
With Xbox cuts not done, Microsoft offer voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 workers across the company in latest attempt to get rid of staff

Update: According to Vertical Slice and The Verge, an unspecified number of Xbox staff are among those who've been offered voluntary buyouts by Microsoft. Original story follows: Staff at...

Microsoft is looking to cut over a quarter of the whole company in new voluntary buyout program with 60,000 employees reportedly eligible
Microsoft is looking to cut over a quarter of the whole company in new voluntary buyout program with 60,000 employees reportedly eligible

Microsoft has made thousands of layoffs over the past few years, and it's not done cutting jobs yet. After implementing a voluntary buyout program earlier this year, the company is now offering it...

Over 25% of Microsoft's workforce is reportedly eligible to apply for a 'voluntary exit offer'
Over 25% of Microsoft's workforce is reportedly eligible to apply for a 'voluntary exit offer'

An employee buyout offer is reportedly being extended to roughly 60,000 Microsoft employees in the US, UK, India, and Canada.

Microsoft restructuring continues with 60,000 employees given buyout offer to leave now, or probably get laid off later anyway

Microsoft says it’s giving people a choice in their inevitable next round of layoffs at the company, which has already seen a bunch of turnover at Xbox as part of new CEO Asha Sharma’s "reset." A...

Microsoft Offers Buyouts to Half of Its Workforce as Cuts Continue
Microsoft Offers Buyouts to Half of Its Workforce as Cuts Continue

Accelerating layoffs in all but name, Microsoft is looking to slice through its active staff to keep costs down.

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