#buyout

Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees to contain costs

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-is-offering-buyouts-around-60000-employees-business-insider-reports-2026-10-26/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/microsoft-msft-voluntary-buyouts.html

Something we might see from FDS?

Severance + accelerated vesting of stock + more than 1 month of COBRA insurance would be fantastic.

Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 workers as it looks to trim costs https://share.google/PO8CRKfWPG4Wzozhr

If it goes based on severance, you already should know what the offer is. The way DE makes it seem is there is some actual offer. It’s not.

Take the buy out and get peace of mind or wait it out? Trying to understand the wait it out option better

Skydance is implementing a voluntary buyout program for some employees as part of its integration process. This initiative aims to provide eligible staff with an option to leave the company on their own terms. Concurrently, the company is enforcing a mandatory five-day-per-week in-office policy for all employees. Leadership believes this in-person collaboration is crucial for fostering creativity and business success. These changes follow Skydance's recent acquisition of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.

Los Angeles, California

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/skydance-voluntary-buyouts-layoffs-5-days-per-week-in-office-policy-1236931402/

FIS to offer employees voluntary buyouts ahead of December Layoffs.

Announcements to be made 11/4/2026.

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to approximately 60,000 employees globally. This move is part of a broader strategy to reduce costs and adapt its workforce for the growing field of artificial intelligence. The program is available to eligible employees in the US, Canada, India, and the UK. These individuals are at the vice president level and below. The company aims to streamline operations and refocus its talent pool.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-26/microsoft-to-offer-buyouts-to-60-000-workers-in-latest-cost-cut

Microsoft sent its offer to company employees, offering a chance to 'leave Microsoft with financial support.' Employees must decide in early Dec and must leave on December 31.

Microsoft is offering up to 60,000 people money to quit on their own. Maybe L3Harris should follow suit and avoid the upcoming layoff,
but, L3 Harris is too cheap so it won’t happen.

For those currently working remotely who decline the VBO, when will they have to start coming into the office 5 days a week?

There’s no office in my area, so which offices would people like me be expected to go to?

A company willing to let got 60,000 workers does not have labor shortage. That is a simple fact to understand. Any one who disagrees is a bad faith actor.

Now the question is, why is Microsoft one of the biggest H1B visas filers in the US year after year?

Because there is no labor shortage, obviously. H1b and H4 visas have been used against the American people to lower wages and squeeze more work out of them.

This is not an attack to those on H1b and H4 visas. You are not at fault. You are not the people benefit from all of this.

Fiserv needs to same for Directors and above. We have so many.

Please Verizon do the same.

Hearing rumbling about RTO emails and/or a voluntary buyout coming in the next week or so. That would be on track with the timing of when it happened last year. Anyone else hear this or get more details? Wondering, if they will offer volunteer to opt out in international markets as well..

Seems like the buyout hype came and went pretty quick. Is it safe to say this has passed?

if you set your pay to automatically buy stocks and the bonus comes in they will use a percent of that to buy stocks, right ? What is the price we would be buying at ? Does it make sense to buy at the current high values ?

I have heard of a few people being laid off, just curious if there is any news on more layoffs, or buyouts, before the sale is final?

If Chevron offered another EOI tomorrow, would you take it? Include years of service and approximate career stage if you're comfortable.

So, once you over pampered geniuses drive the stock to Aubrey's levels, and buy it all back for cheap. What is next? Applying for credit cards just to keep paying yourselves bonuses and hide from the creditors later by moving to Belize?

Last Friday there was big party walk through of the entire facility literally of like 20 people. Rumors say it was one Baker big dog and our lower management of the Brittmoore facility said they were not told who the others were. I also heard they were told not to sign in with security so nobody knows who they were. What’s up with that? Layoffs? Merger? Buyout?

Lots of unverified/ speculative chatter on the web about a 2nd mysterious bidder willing to offer 70 dollars per share which is the boards starting negotiation price and which Stripe Advent were unable to offer. Is it true and who could it be that has the deep pockets? My wild guess is Watsapp/Meta or Twitter/Musk as both want to move out of pure advertising revenue and have the deep pockets.

Why aren’t we buying back our stock faster? We have so much cash and all time lows on our stock. We can basically take our company private in a few years at this rate.

At least in my area, it seems like pretty much everyone who was offered the buyout is turning it down. Meanwhile, a lot of the people who actually want the buyout weren't offered one.

So what happens if the company is claiming a surplus but not enough people take the offer? Could they eventually move to layoffs? And if they do, would the people who were offered the buyout and chose not to take it be the first ones affected, or would layoffs go strictly by seniority? Also, the local is hush hush about this in my area.

everything InfoSys touches s*ck and causes more layoffs. why not just sell the company to Indians?

Weird price action with the stock today. Is Enrique actually about to say something? Seems like the buyout or layoffs got leaked to Wall Street.

The Minnesota Star Tribune has implemented layoffs and buyouts affecting 24 union employees. These reductions are part of a larger company-wide initiative to decrease its workforce by approximately 15 percent. Most of the affected positions were within the newsroom, leading to an 11 percent reduction in news staff. However, no core news-gathering roles like reporters or photographers were eliminated. The company stated these changes are aimed at positioning the organization for long-term sustainability as a digital media company.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/06/24/minnesota-star-tribune-eliminates-24-union-jobs

Wouldn’t that money be better spend buying off the grandpas and grandmas?

Verizon is not for sale. Verizon will never be for sale. Spacex is not looking to buy Verizon, spacex will never be looking to buy Verizon. Satellite is no competition for terrestrial networks. Satellite will never be competition for terrestrial networks. Shut the fu-k up already.

Optum is the external facing tech and services part of United Health Group. The Optum Insights CEO Sandeep Dadlani is aggressively outsourcing sales and implementation to Cognizant (and Wipro, Infosys, etc SIs). Huge new push to sell external vendor tech licenses that Optum didn't do before - turning Optum Insights into a SI.

The move makes significant internal friction. Veteran staff are leaving in large numbers as leadership brings in teams from India. US employees are frustrated Cognizant is literally competing directly with internal units. SD is running the business into the ground. He's also spinning up sales targets outside healthcare, which is odd.

Word in the boardroom is there will be a merger or buyout between part of Optum and Cognizant by end of year. Sandeep is positioning himself to take over as Cognizant’s CEO from Ravi.

Expect layoffs in both companies. Brace yourselves!

I subscribe to Beckers. This article is interesting....

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/centenes-buyouts-could-have-a-315m-price-tag-for-the-rest-of-the-year/

https://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-considering-voluntary-buyouts-2026-7

Bob is quoted as saying "I'll buy that for a dollar"!

Heard that several companies are circling for merger / acquisition of FIS. This is the reason stock went from 38 to 41 as news was leaked and potential buyers stared accumulating stock from open market.
CapitalOne, Visa and Private Equity firm led by Silver Lakes partners have shown interest to buy.

Comrades, I urge you to take the retirement buyout for all International employees. The UK Workplace Pension, French Plan épargne Retraite and the US 401 are fully funded but the International is not. This will be offered once before we freeze and cancel the International Plan. You have been forewarned. Offer expires in August.

Read between the lines, my love. The following is from a LinkedIn post:

Take the severance.
Take the buyout.
Take the "early exit" package.
Take the separation package.
Take the termination package.
When your employer starts offering them, pay attention.
Because these programs are rarely about generosity.
They're usually the corporate version of smoke in the kitchen.
A re-org is coming.
A sale is coming.
An acquisition is coming.
Layoffs are coming.
Or somebody in a conference room has decided payroll needs to lose a little weight.
Earlier this year, I had a client turn down an early retirement package because he loved his job and thought the company loved him back.
"There's no way they're going to let me go."
They did.
Four months later.

The package he turned down included
1 full year of severance
6 months of COBRA
50% of his expected annual bonus

What did he get when the layoff finally came?
6 weeks of pay.
No bonus.
No extra health coverage.

That's a brutal difference.
I know people don't want to believe the company they've given years to might be setting the stage to cut them loose.
But loyalty does not protect you. Ever.
If a company starts offering buyouts, early retirement packages, or voluntary separation deals, do not just focus on whether you want to leave.
Ask yourself why they want people to leave now.
Because not taking the offer can be like assuming the gift horse isn't about to turn around and kick you square in the a-s.

Financial chicanery doesn't cover up Accidenture's big ugly blemishes... years of strategy chokejobs, all-around leadership idiocy, and reactive Indian bodyshop-style layoffs (woe to those who roll off a project for any reason).

Real leaders deliver shareholder value through organic growth and cost containment, not buybacks of their toilet swirling stock. Employee incentives and enrichment? Long-term operational improvements? Real leadership and strategy? Na! Better to artificially prop up the dog$#!+ stock. Better to make a few high profile acquisitions in search of a rationale at the expense of loyal, long-term employee pay and bonuses.

Do Julie and her so called leadership really believe this toiletpaper thin PR cover-up for their horrible planning and utter absence of strategy is protecting them from accountability? Tick-tock, tick-tock...