Microsoft在AI投资中向60 000名雇员提供自愿买断服务
Microsoft公司今天向大约四分之一的员工发出自愿买断报价。
受搬迁影响的约6万名工人分布在美国，加拿大，印度和英国。 据报告，在公司内部经验表中，他们的得分都低于70分。 这意味着受工作影响的最高级雇员削减是副总统。
自愿买断方案使工人提前收到解雇通知。 表示希望提前离职的工作人员通常比标准结构调整举措获得更慷慨的离职条件。
对于Microsoft的买断计划，员工将不得不在12月初之前接受报价。 选择加入的工人将在当月晚些时候离开。
据报告，一些营销、销售和工程小组决定不参加。 不过，目前还不清楚哪个具体业务单位可以找到削减。
Microsoft的亏损Xbox电子游戏业务似乎属于受影响群体。 该公司在6月放走该师1600名雇员后，GeekWire报告说，预计还会有更多的裁员。
根据"商业内幕"(Business Insider)的说法，Microsoft经验级上得分为64分或以下的工人，每在公司度过6个月就会得到一周的工资。 65至67级工作人员将得到两周的津贴。 Microsoft还将提供6至12个月的库存储备，持续提供有限的时间的医疗保健和替代支助。
“自愿退出提议对我们来说是新的。 Microsoft首席人民官Amy Coleman在给员工的备忘录中写道：“与此同时，我们将继续帮助人们专注于最重要的工作，培养新的技能，并在有意义的地方在整个Microsoft找到新的机会。”
尽管上个季度取得了强劲的财务成果，但该公司正在缩减其人数。 Microsoft的收入在6月结束的3个月里逐年增长18%，达到90.01亿美元，而调整后的每股收入4.74美元则使共识估计数超过12%。
削减的工作可能是为Microsoft的数据中心建设提供更多资金的努力的一部分。 公司在上个季度开设了31个新的数据中心，超过了年初拥有的云设施总数的一半以上。 Microsoft预计会以1.75亿美元的资本支出结束2026年。 这比公司预计的4月1900亿美元要低，但仍大大超过2025年的开支。
定制芯片在公司降低数据中心成本的努力中起重要作用。 本月早些时候，Microsoft首次推出一个名为"Maia 300"的推论加速器，其称每兆瓦提供比主要图形卡多出40%的代币。 该公司透露，它计划使"马亚芯片"系列成为其推论能力的主要来源。
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Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees amid AI investments
Microsoft Corp. today issued voluntary buyout offers to about a quarter of its workforce.
The approximately 60,000 workers affected by the move are located in the U.S., Canada, India and the U.K. They reportedly all have a score of 70 or below on the company’s internal experience scale. That means the most senior employees affected by the job cuts are vice presidents.
Voluntary buyout programs give workers advanced notice of layoffs. Staffers who indicate that they wish to leave early usually receive more generous severance terms than in a standard restructuring initiative.
In the case of Microsoft’s buyout program, employees will have until early December to accept the offer. Workers who opt in will leave later that month.
Some marketing, sales and engineering teams have reportedly decided against participating. However, it’s unclear which specific business units are set to see job cuts.
It seems likely that Microsoft’s loss-making Xbox video game business is among the impacted groups. After the company let go 1,600 of the division’s employees in June, GeekWire reported that additional layoffs were expected.
According to Business Insider, workers with a score of 64 or below on Microsoft’s experience scale will receive one week of pay for every six months spent at the company. Staffers at levels 65 to 67 will receive two weeks. Microsoft will also provide stock vesting for six to 12 months, continued healthcare coverage for a limited amount of time and outplacement support.
“The Voluntary Exit Offer is new for us. We’ll learn from it,” Microsoft Chief People Officer Amy Coleman wrote in a memo to employees. “At the same time, we’ll keep helping people focus on the work that matters most, build new skills and, where it makes sense, find new opportunities across Microsoft.”
The company is trimming its headcount despite the fact that it delivered strong financial results last quarter. Microsoft’s revenue grew 18% year-over-year in the three months ended June, to $90.01 billion, while its adjusted earnings of $4.74 per share topped the consensus estimate by more than 12%.
The job cuts may be part of an effort to make more funds available for Microsoft’s data center buildout. The company opened 31 new data centers last quarter, more than half the total number of cloud facilities it had at the start of the year. Microsoft expects to end 2026 with $175 million in capital expenditures. That’s down from the $190 billion the company projected by April, but still significantly above its 2025 spending.
Custom chips play an important role in the company’s’ efforts to reduce its data center costs. Earlier this month, Microsoft debuted an inference accelerator called Maia 300 that it says provides 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading graphics cards. The company revealed that it plans to make the Maia chip series its primary source of inference capacity.
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