Microsoft offers a quarter of its workforce voluntary severance while shielding AI-critical teams
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Summary: Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, in the second such program this year. The company's headcount has held flat at around 223,000 since 2022 even as it plans to spend about $170 billion on AI infrastruc
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