--- title: Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees, about a... description: Microsoft is offering a voluntary exit package to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its 223,000-person workforce. The offer covers eligible staff at... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-60-000-employees-about-a-quarter-of-its-staff-deuf3peg8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees, about a quarter of its staff | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft is offering a voluntary exit package to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its 223,000-person workforce. The offer covers eligible staff at... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-60-000-employees-about-a-quarter-of-its-staff-deuf3peg8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/deuF3PeG8.png og:image:alt: Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees, about a quarter of its staff og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees, about a quarter of its staff **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft is offering a voluntary exit package to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its 223,000-person workforce. The offer covers eligible staff at level 70 and below in Canada, India, the UK and the US, with teams including Copilot, CoreAI, Windows + Devices, Xbox, finance and HR participating, while security, marketing, quantum and sales are excluded. The package matches standard severance: tenure-based pay, continued stock vesting, fixed-period healthcare and career transition services. Employees have until the first week of December to decide. The offer follows a spring retirement program that 30% of roughly 8,750 eligible staff accepted, and Microsoft cut 4,800 jobs in July, including 3,200 at Xbox. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How many Microsoft employees are eligible for the 2026 voluntary exit buyout offer? About 60,000 employees are eligible, roughly a quarter of Microsoft's 223,000-person workforce as of the end of June. The offer applies to eligible staff at level 70 and below in Canada, India, the UK and the US. Eligible teams include Copilot, CoreAI, Windows + Devices, Xbox, finance and HR, while security, marketing, quantum and the sales organization are excluded. _Developers tracking Microsoft's workforce shifts and team restructuring can follow updates like this on daily.dev._ ### What severance package does Microsoft's voluntary exit offer include? The package matches Microsoft's standard severance terms. It includes base pay calculated by tenure and level, continued stock vesting, healthcare coverage for a fixed period, and career transition services. There is no age or tenure requirement and performance is not a factor in eligibility. Employees have until the first week of December to decide whether to accept. _Anyone weighing a tech layoff or buyout decision can keep up with details like this via daily.dev._ ### Did Microsoft's previous voluntary retirement program have high uptake? No, uptake was limited. About 30% of the roughly 8,750 eligible employees accepted Microsoft's first voluntary retirement program, which ran in spring and was limited to US employees at senior director level and below meeting an age and tenure threshold. Microsoft expects a much smaller acceptance share for the new 60,000-employee buyout offer. The spring program cost Microsoft a $900 million charge in its April earnings report. _Those watching Microsoft's cost-cutting trajectory can track the follow-up numbers on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Microsoft plans to cut under 2.5% of its workforce in a fresh round of layoffs](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-plans-to-cut-under-2-5-of-its-workforce-in-a-fresh-round-of-layoffs-6eorelkn0) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#microsoft](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft), [#future-of-work](https://daily.dev/tags/future-of-work) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-60-000-employees-about-a-quarter-of-its-staff-deuf3peg8) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees, about a quarter of its staff","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-60-000-employees-about-a-quarter-of-its-staff-deuf3peg8","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-60-000-employees-about-a-quarter-of-its-staff-deuf3peg8"},"datePublished":"2026-10-26T16:40:22.263Z","dateModified":"2026-10-26T16:40:53.443Z","description":"Microsoft is offering a voluntary exit package to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its 223,000-person workforce. 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