Microsoft is offering voluntary redundancy to about 7 per cent of its US workforce, in a first for the 51-year-old tech giant as it wrestles with headcount amid an expensive AI bet.
The cloud giant on Thursday told employees that it would offer the option to long-serving employees whose years of service plus age total 70 or more. More than 8,000 employees will be eligible out of the group’s 125,000-strong American workforce.
“Many of these employees have spent years, and in some cases, decades, shaping Microsoft into what it is today,” Amy Coleman, Microsoft’s chief people officer, wrote in a memo seen by the FT.
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