Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees, Business Insider reports


FILE PHOTO: A view shows a Microsoft logo at Microsoft offices in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, France, March 21, 2025. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo

Oct 26 (Reuters) - ⁠Microsoft is offering buyouts to around ⁠60,000 employees, Business Insider reported ‌on Monday, citing a company spokesperson.

The company did not immediately comment on the number of ​employees impacted when contacted ⁠by Reuters.

The voluntary ⁠exit offer will impact key divisions, including ⁠AI ‌experiences, Copilot, finance, human resources, Xbox and Windows + ⁠Devices, a source familiar with the matter ​told ‌Reuters. It will exclude units such ⁠as ​marketing, commercial business and security, the source added.

"This offer will be available ⁠to eligible employees in participating ​teams in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States at level ⁠70 and below," Microsoft said in a blog post on Monday.

The company said it was a time-limited, ​volunatary program and built ⁠on insights gained from a previous ​voluntary retirement program.

(Reporting by ‌Jaspreet Singh and additional ​reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing by Jonathan Ananda)

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