By Aidin Vaziri
Publication Date: 2026-10-26 18:25:00
Microsoft plans to offer voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, allowing more than a quarter of its global workforce to leave the company.
The voluntary exit offer is available to eligible employees in participating teams in the United States, Canada, India and the United Kingdom.
Employees have until early December to decide whether to accept the offer, and those who do are expected to leave Microsoft at the end of the year, according to a public company memo.
It is not clear how many California employees are eligible. Microsoft has not announced a target for the number of departures.
Microsoft said some teams are offering the program while others are not, depending on “each business’s priorities, customer commitments and workforce needs.”
The company had about 223,000 full-time employees worldwide as of June 30, according to its annual report. About 121,000 were in the United States.
That means the roughly 60,000 employees reported to be eligible for the buyout represent…
