Microsoft will reportedly offer buyouts to 60,000 eligible employees to cut costs as AI use grows, according to Bloomberg, the latest in a series of workforce reductions this year. The company earlier offered voluntary retirement in April to about 7% of its US workforce, roughly 125,000 people at the time, out of a global workforce of about 223,000. Xbox, Windows and Copilot are included, while employees in cybersecurity, datacenters and marketing are not eligible. Meta cut 10% of its staff (about 8,000 people) and Oracle shed nearly 13% (21,000 jobs), but the article says it is unclear whether these measures have yet improved efficiency. An NBER survey of 9,000 senior executives found that 90% said AI had yet to boost productivity at their companies.
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