Microsoft Offers Buyouts, Meta Lays Off 10 Percent of Workforce

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A sign for Microsoft at an event booth in Washington on June 2, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Microsoft will offer voluntary buyouts to some of its U.S. staff as the software titan adapts to the artificial intelligence (AI) climate.

The company outlined a one-time retirement offer for employees at the senior-director level whose combined age and years of service reach 70 or more, a Microsoft representative confirmed to The Epoch Times. Employees on sales-incentive plans are excluded.