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# Microsoft offers buyouts to a quarter of its workforce
- URL: https://www.medianexis.com/microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-a-quarter-of-its-workforce/
- Published: 2026-10-27T21:37:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-27T21:37:28.000Z
- Description: The Ankler’s Sean McNulty reports that Microsoft is making voluntary buyout offers to 25% of its workforce, about 60,000 people, who have to decide their futures by early December, with a prior buyout round yielding only a 30% acceptance rate.
- Author: The Signals Desk
- Tags: Agencies, Sean McNulty, Ankler newsletter: Skydance staff exits roundup

**Why it matters.** If too few employees accept the buyouts, Microsoft’s next lever for cutting costs to fund AI spending will be involuntary layoffs.

*Signal from* [*The Ankler*](https://theankler.com/?ref=medianexis.com) *·* [*Sean McNulty*](https://www.medianexis.com/tag/by-sean-mcnulty/) *·* [*read the original*](https://theankler.com/skydance-asks-staff-to-leave-nicely-for-now/?ref=medianexis.com)*.*