# Microsoft is offering voluntary retrenchment to about 60-thousand employees, more than a quarter of its global workforce, to contain costs while investing heavily in artificial intelligence. Eligible staff in the United States, Canada, Britain and India include workers in Xbox, Windows, Copilot, finance and human resources. Marketing, commercial business and security teams are excluded. Microsoft has 223-thousand employees worldwide and expects to spend about 2.9-trillion-rand on capital investments this year, largely to expand its AI infrastructure. The company previously offered voluntary buyouts to some US staff.
Microsoft offers voluntary retrenchment to 60,000 employees amid AI spending