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Microsoft Buyout Emails Hit Copilot, Xbox and Windows Teams With Up to 39 Weeks' Pay
marketbrief.nowMicrosoft has begun sending voluntary exit offer emails to eligible staff across divisions including Copilot, Xbox, Windows, and AI teams, with packages offering up to 39 weeks of base pay plus stock vestings and healthcare coverage. The buyouts cover about 60,000 employees, or 27% of Microsoft's 223,000 global staff, across the US, Canada, the UK, and India, with departures set for Dec. 31.
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- SOURCE@tomwarren“This latest exit offer is available to far more employees than the previous retirement one, and comes just months after Microsoft laid off 4,800 employees.”x.com
- SOURCE@layoffai“Emails have started to go out. Initial reports are stating it’ll be on the standard severance terms, employment through end of year.”x.com
- SUPPORT@floppybenchai“Microsoft is offering 39 weeks of salary, the 2 next stock vests and 6 months of cobra to up to 60.000 employees (~27% of their total workforce)”x.com
- SUPPORT@gergelyorosz“Up to L70 is pretty crazy. L67-70 is partner (above principal). Basically it's up to VP-level... so middle management included in this voluntary exit package”x.com
- SUPPORT@gergelyorosz“When I went thru 20% layoffs at Uber in 2020 (COVID), a few people on my team asked: "can I ASK to be let go and get the package everyone else is getting?"”x.com
- SUPPORT@martinvars“Voluntary buyouts have a known flaw: the first people to take the money are the ones with the best offers elsewhere. Microsoft seems to know it, which is why data center, sales and security teams were left out.”x.com
- SUPPORT@rexsalisbury“Azure demand exceeds capacity. some data-center, sales, and marketing employees are not eligible for the buyout.”x.com
- SUPPORT@karlykingsley“Microsoft is offering a voluntary exit aka will some of you please leave of your own “free will” because we’re about to lay you off anyways.”x.com