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/
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I think they are targeting the most expensive employees.
@ef This is definitely the most fu---d up part :D There was a person on my team that just felt like he was done and wanted to get out, so he volunteered to put his name on the next round. It took 9 months. All the while that people that actually wanted to stay was thrown out.
I guess they wanted to see if he would just quit on his own first.
Here is what this means for Microslop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1xyX3ZQJ6k&t=628s
And Dell will follow
What's crazy is I've been hoping for a severance option for months. Early this year I told my boss I'd take a voluntary separation agreement, or at least put me on the layoff list.
9 months later and not a single week of meeting KPI requirements and they still haven't given me the boot. Every 1x1 my boss is like "improve your activity sync or else!" but nothing actually happens.
It's all a facade.
I hope Dell can provide the same thing
MSFT has around 223K employees globally and this is around 25% of their employees. I have heard Dell is planning to half their head count (including the contract workers). But I can tell one thing we will not get a buyout XD.
@cq I saw in a different conversation that the targeted level is 60k (or 65k?). Obviously completely unsourced but if true that's even bigger % than in case of MS.
No worries, it will be months before they figure out in ODW how to fire anyone
Dell doesn't do buyouts. Dell (BAIN) does "push outs."
They will do everything in their power to push you out before they ever give you a nickel to buy you out. That's the code of greed at Dell.
60,000 employees at Microsoft represent about 25% of their workforce. Microsoft is gambling with AI. I don't think Dell will follow its lead, they can't be that d-mb or can they?
PS: they fired so many people at Dell that we are actually understaffed
Of course not. They are too cheap. That would also assume leadership had integrity
No. It would be a stampede out the door.
Of course not, that suggests that the employer actually cares about the employees and want to give them an option rather than trying to force them out through psychological abuse.
Funny thing is that Dell have gone through a "voluntary separation programme" once, before the EMC merger. That was when the company actually still cared about the well-being of employees.
Absolutely NOT! Where have you been?
Dell doesn't do buyouts. Dell (BAIN) does "push outs." They will do everything in their power to push you out before they ever give you a nickel to buy you out. That's the code of greed at Dell.