微软向约 6 万名员工提供自愿离职方案
Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Employees
微软向印度、美国、英国和加拿大的约 6 万名员工提供自愿离职方案，覆盖其 223,000 名全球员工的约 27%，面向参与组织中内部职级 70 及以下的员工。微软首席人事官 Amy Coleman 表示，这是限时的自愿项目，为符合条件者提供财务支持和职业规划资源。此次方案延续了今年早些时候面向约 8,750 名美国员工的自愿退休计划，当时约 30% 的符合条件员工接受；微软 7 月还宣布裁减约 4,800 个岗位，涉及 Xbox 游戏业务等。
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Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to around 60,000 employees across India, the US, the UK, and Canada, giving eligible staff the option to leave the company with financial support and career-planning resources.
Announced on October 26, the Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO) is available to employees at internal job level 70 and below in participating organisations. The programme covers roughly 27% of Microsoft's global workforce of 223,000.
The tech and AI company did not disclose how many of the 23,000 employees in India are affected.
Microsoft Chief People Officer Amy Coleman said in a blog post that eligible employees could leave the company with financial support and career-planning resources.
“This is a time-limited, voluntary program that gives those who are eligible the opportunity to leave Microsoft with financial support and career planning resources,” she said.
The voluntary exit offer follows Microsoft’s voluntary retirement programme earlier this year, which was open to around 8,750 US employees. About 30% of eligible employees accepted, Microsoft said.
The company also announced plans to cut around 4,800 jobs in July, with reductions affecting its Xbox gaming business and other parts of the company.
The latest programme comes as Microsoft increases spending on AI infrastructure, including data centres and computing capacity. The company is investing heavily in AI services and products, including its Copilot offerings, while managing the costs associated with expanding its infrastructure.
Coleman said the VEO builds on lessons from the earlier retirement programme and is part of Microsoft’s approach to managing workforce changes. “The Voluntary Exit Offer is new for us. We’ll learn from it,” she said.
She added that Microsoft would continue helping employees build skills and explore internal opportunities where appropriate, saying there was “no one-size-fits-all approach for every team or every employee”.
It has also committed $20.5 billion in investment in India between 2025 and 2029 across cloud and AI infrastructure, skilling and operations.