Microsoft offers voluntary severance to about 60,000 employees, while ramping up AI infrastructure investment
Microsoft announced that it is offering voluntary severance to about 60,000 employees at level 70 and below in the United States, Canada, India and the United Kingdom, roughly a quarter of its total workforce; the company did not say how many would ultimately accept. Microsoft previously disclosed that it would invest about $116 billion in property and equipment in fiscal 2026, mainly for cloud and AI data centers, about $50 billion more than in fiscal 2025. According to Bloomberg, the program covers teams including Xbox, Windows, Copilot and finance, but excludes some data center, sales and marketing personnel.
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