Microsoft has offered to lay off almost a third of its employees. Following the introduction of artificial intelligence, the company decided that 60 thousand people became redundant - that's 27% of the workforce. They were offered voluntary separation with a standard severance package of up to 39 weeks of basic pay (depending on length of service). At the same time, even presidents are subject to layoffs, but the sales and marketing departments, some engineers and some corporate services decided not to touch.