Charlie getting any ideas, given on their board? Or too scared too many people will take him up on it? Microsoft is offering an unprecedented voluntary buyout program to roughly 25% of its total global workforce, which equates to approximately 60,000 employees.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/10/26/microsoft-msft-voluntary-buyouts.html
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It's basically the same as severance, except you likely won't be eligible for unemployment when it ends.
Apples and oranges. Microsoft hired a ton post-COVID. Just because they offered it to 60K doesn't mean all will take it. It was something like 30% the last time this was done. It's a different culture there too so WF suddenly changing the approach they've had for years now is wishful thinking.
2023 called, they want their boot licking boomer back.
Shart comes to work every day devising new and creative ways of downsizing YOU. He doesn't give a flying F if you are going to the office or not, when he's done you'll never set foot in one again. 0 hours, 0 days per week is your future RTO schedule.
What’s the math / formula for the MS buyout?
CS will never offer buyouts to us. We are a toxic dump compared to M$FT. Here we are not empowered, not like the tech employs at M$FT.
Why offer buyouts when simply requiring people to come to work makes the entitled corporate class quit in droves? All they'd have to do is require everyone to work 8-6 five days a week in office and WF would lose tens of thousands within weeks with zero payout required.
Offering buyouts would mean that Charlie and his goon squad are considering employee preferences and employee well being. NOT GONNA HAPPEN! Wake up folks, executive leadership at this company does not want US employees. They hate all of you and want your role to be located in India. Thats it
@OP if chuckles offered a buyout. The only people left in tech would be Indians and this company would not last a week with that crowd.
I've seen chatter on here before that the c-suite is dead set against buyouts, for whatever reason.
They've managed to cut 100k people without shocking the stock price so why would they change course?
Shart would never do this. It doesn't cause enough suffering, and he simply enjoys that aspect too much to give it up.