Microsoft offers buyouts to a quarter of its workforce
Host Carl Rizdahl reports that Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to approximately 60,000 employees, representing a quarter of its workforce, to cut costs and help offset heavy investments in artificial intelligence.
“It's going to offer buyouts to 60,000 people, about a quarter of its workforce, in part to cut costs and in other part to offset all that AI spending.”
Carl Rizdahl
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