Microsoft offers buyout for up to 7% of US employees
Summary
TechCrunch reports that Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts for up to 7% of its US workforce, based on an age-plus-years-of-service threshold of 70. The move aims to reduce headcount without mass layoffs, following prior rounds that trimmed thousands of jobs. The buyouts would affect roughly 8,750 employees out of about 125,000 US workers.