Microsoft announces buyouts for 60K employees — quarter of workforce — as part of AI transformation

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees — over a quarter of its workforce — as the software giant works to cut costs and revamp its staff for the AI era.
Employees in the US, Canada, the UK, and India on Monday received a memo saying the voluntary exit offers “are a few of the ways we’re trying to meet different business needs while continuing to create opportunities for our own people to grow and contribute.”
Microsoft had about 223,000 employees at the time the memo went out.

The large corporations don’t need them and their participation diplomas are useless because they deliberately cheated their way through college and learned nothing, so what else have these kids to do except screw around?

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These learing opportunities are available at all our finest universities, like Harvard, whose own kink fest is coming in two weeks.

Hell, even the traditional dumping ground for the untalented and unwanted, government, seems to be in jeopardy

Dutch government to cut 16 percent of workforce as part of AI efficiency push.

No job is secure from the advent of artificial intelligence’s rapid growth. In a lengthy post detailing how the Dutch government plans to improve efficiency, it announced that it would get rid of 25,000 full time jobs over the span of a few years as part of cost-cutting measures. As part of that effort, the government is also planning to lean on AI to contribute to productivity.
According to the Dutch government, the goal is to cut back 900 million euros, or around $1 billion, in costs by 2027, with that estimate rising to 3.5 billion euros, or approximately $3.9 billion, by 2035. The post detailed that not all government agencies will be affected, with police and defense being excluded.
It’s unclear how the government plans to deploy AI to reduce costs, but the post read that the Dutch cabinet will “come up with goals and savings plans for deploying AI to work more productively,” in the first quarter of 2027. The country’s state secretary, Eric van der Burg wrote in a letter to the Dutch parliament that this overall effort was part of a push to make the government “simpler, smart and smaller.”

DOGE helped shrink the federal workforce to its lowest level in 60 years, but there’s always room for AI-enhanced improvement.