Edition November 1, 2026

Microsoft offers voluntary severance to a quarter of its workforce while shielding AI-critical teams

Microsoft is making voluntary severance available to roughly 60,000 employees, around a quarter of its workforce.

The program is open to employees at vice president level and below in the U.S., Canada, India and the UK; it includes Xbox, Windows, Copilot and Finance, but not data centers, sales, cybersecurity or quantum computing. Microsoft is running its second program of this kind in 2026.

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