Microsoft (MSFT.US) offers voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees: covering more than a quarter of its global workforce, cutting costs to free up room for AI capital expenditure

Zhitong Finance APP has learned that Microsoft (MSFT.US) said on Monday it will offer a voluntary separation compensation program to approximately 60,000 employees as a way to cut costs, reshape its workforce structure, and align with its business layout in the artificial intelligence (AI) era.