{
  "id": 16660669,
  "title": "Microsoft Offers Buyouts To 60,000, A Quarter Of Its Workforce",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-60-000-a-quarter-of-its-workforce",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-26T21:15:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-a-quarter-of-workforce-1237197224/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to more than a quarter of its staff, some 60,000 people, as it looks to defray the cost of AI and data center spending. The buyouts will be offered to staffers at the vice president level or below in the U.S., Canada, India and the U.K. The Xbox, Windows, Copilot […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}