---
title: "Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 workers as it pours money into AI"
description: "Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its staff, as it shifts investment toward AI, a large-scale sign of AI-driven workforce restructuring."
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section: "Work"
author: "Josh Alley"
author_url: "https://hastalavista.ai/authors/alley"
published: "2026-10-27T00:22:14.430Z"
updated: "2026-10-27T00:22:14.430Z"
canonical: "https://hastalavista.ai/work/microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-60000-workers-as-it-pours-money-into-ai"
source_url: "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-buyouts-60000-workers-artificial-intelligence-layoffs/"
source_name: "CBS News"
---

# Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 workers as it pours money into AI

*Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its staff, as it shifts investment toward AI, a large-scale sign of AI-driven workforce restructuring.*

By [Josh Alley](https://hastalavista.ai/authors/alley) · October 26, 2026

Source: [Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 workers as it pours money into AI](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-buyouts-60000-workers-artificial-intelligence-layoffs/) — CBS News