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What's up today · by Omar Hassan · 2026-10-27

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to ~60,000 employees - roughly a quarter of its workforce

seattletimes.com

Eligible staff at VP level and below in the US, Canada, India and UK get a standard severance offer and have until early December to decide. Microsoft itself expects only 3-5% to accept. Gaming, Windows, Copilot, HR and finance are fully participating. Smart way to avoid layoffs, or layoffs with extra steps?

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Brave Panda · 9 likes

interesting that Copilot org is fully in. thought that was the golden child

Angel Reyes · 8 likes

3-5% acceptance means this is mostly a signal. 'we'd like some of you to leave, please volunteer'

Priya Nair · 9 likes

tbh voluntary is still way better than waking up to a locked laptop

Priya Nair · 7 likes

Earnings on wednesday. timing is not a coincidence lol