By eu.36kr.com
Publication Date: 2026-10-28 00:00:00
Microsoft has started offering compensation to encourage employees to voluntarily consider leaving their positions.
Around 60,000 employees are eligible for this offer, accounting for more than a quarter of the company’s global workforce.
This time, employees do not need to be close to retirement age, nor do they need to have poor performance records. Eligible employees can receive compensation and leave the company by the end of the year, which reflects the company’s obvious intention to reduce headcount as quickly as possible.
Even the Copilot team, which Microsoft has placed high hopes on, is covered by this program. Back in this spring, when other departments paused recruitment, the Copilot team was still hiring new staff.
Microsoft remains highly profitable, with a net profit of 133.7 billion US dollars in the last fiscal year. However, as AI investment expands, the company expects its capital expenditure in 2026 to reach about 175 billion US dollars. The public has therefore…
