Microsoft has offered voluntary redundancy to up to 60,000 employees, including staff in the UK, as the technology group seeks to cut costs.
The buyout, which Microsoft calls a Voluntary Exit Offer, was announced to staff yesterday in a memo from Amy Coleman, its chief people officer. It is open to eligible employees in participating teams in the United States, Canada, India and the UK.
The eligible group represents about a quarter of Microsoft’s global workforce, CBS News reported. Microsoft employed about 223,000 people on a full-time basis at the end of June, 121,000 of them in the US and 102,000 internationally, according to its latest annual report. It employs about 6,000 people in Britain.
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