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Microsoft, the leading software company, is increasingly relying on artificial intelligence and has offered voluntary redundancy to about one-quarter of its workforce – 60,000 employees – in exchange for a willing departure from their jobs. This offer is available to certain employees in Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Microsoft's Human Resources head Amy Coleman announced in a blog post on Monday. This is the first time Microsoft has offered such a compensation package, Coleman wrote.

Microsoft aims to learn from this experience while continuing to help people focus on the most important work, acquire new skills, and, where appropriate, find new jobs within Microsoft. As of the end of June, the company employed approximately 223,000 full-time staff members. According to informed sources, the company had planned in May to offer voluntary redundancy to around 8,750 employees – seven percent of its U.S. workforce – in exchange for a voluntary job resignation.

In July, Microsoft announced that it would be cutting 4,800 positions, roughly 2.1 percent of its global workforce.