{"id":60809,"date":"2026-10-26T23:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/microsoft-is-offering-buyouts-to-around-60000-employees-reports-say\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T23:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:55:56","slug":"microsoft-is-offering-buyouts-to-around-60000-employees-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/microsoft-is-offering-buyouts-to-around-60000-employees-reports-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Microsoft is offering buyouts to\u00a0around 60,000 employees,\u00a0Business Insider<\/i>\u00a0reported on Monday (October 26, 2026), citing a company\u00a0spokesperson.<\/p>\n

The company did not immediately comment on the number \u200cof employees impacted when contacted by Reuters<\/i>. The \u200cvoluntary exit offer \u200cwill \u2060impact key divisions, including \u2060AI experiences, Copilot, finance, human resources, Xbox and Windows + Devices, \u200ba source \u200cfamiliar with the matter told Reuters<\/i>. It will exclude units such as \u200cmarketing, commercial business and security, \u200bthe source added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis offer will be \u2060available to eligible employees in participating teams in \u200cCanada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States at level 70 and below,\u201d Microsoft said in a \u200cblog post on Monday (October 26, 2026).<\/p>\n

The company \u200bsaid it was a time-limited, voluntary program and \u2060built on insights gained \u2060from a previous voluntary retirement program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Microsoft \u200bsaid it was a time-limited, voluntary program and \u2060built on insights gained \u2060from a previous voluntary retirement program. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Microsoft is offering buyouts to\u00a0around 60,000 employees,\u00a0Business Insider\u00a0reported on Monday (October 26, 2026), citing a company\u00a0spokesperson. The company did not immediately comment on the number \u200cof employees impacted when contacted by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}