Microsoft is investing tens of billions in artificial intelligence - and at the same time asking 60,000 employees to voluntarily resign. The company is increasing capital expenditures to $175 billion in fiscal year 2026, allocating almost all of it to artificial intelligence infrastructure, while offering voluntary layoffs with compensation to approximately 60,000 employees. The letter was sent by Human Resources Director Amy Coleman: The program covers the US, Canada, the UK and India, levels 70 and below - including vice presidents. The company, of course, doesn't officially describe it as "replacing people with machines." Coleman's formulation: "Give the participating units another way to adapt the workforce to changing needs." (Where that workforce goes now, the company doesn't care. Employees have families, loans, some obligations, some expenses, etc., how can they now earn money and what to live on) it matters who is on the list and who is not. According to Reuters, participants include AI, Copilot, Finance, Human Resources, Xbox, Windows and Devices. Data center operations, cyber security, sales and marketing are not included. That is, the company is willing to pay for the treatment of those who, among other things, "do artificial intelligence", but retain those who ensure their physical work and safety. Microsoft has about 223 thousand employees - 60 thousand jobs means that every fourth person received the letter. This is already the second "voluntary" optimization of the year: in April they started a program for employees with the sum of age and length of service over 70 (about 9 thousand talented, one third remaining), in July another 4,800 jobs were cut. People shrink, calculations grow. The decision is before the beginning of December, the departure is before the end of the year. Shares rose slightly on the day of the news. Officially, it adapts the workforce to changing needs. But the exclusion of data centers and cybersecurity from the plan speaks for itself: humanity has created artificial intelligence—and is now negotiating reparations for those it has barren. This AI will still screw everyone over, it just won't seem enough.

Microsoft is investing tens of billions in artificial intelligence - and at the same time asking 60,000 employees to voluntarily resign. The company is increasing capital expenditures to $175 billion in fiscal year 2026, allocating almost all of it to artificial intelligence infrastructure, while offering voluntary layoffs with compensation to approximately 60,000 employees. The letter was sent by Human Resources Director Amy Coleman: The program covers the US, Canada, the UK and India, levels 70 and below - including vice presidents. The company, of course, doesn't officially describe it as "replacing people with machines." Coleman's formulation: "Give the participating units another way to adapt the workforce to changing needs." (Where that workforce goes now, the company doesn't care. Employees have families, loans, some obligations, some expenses, etc., how can they now earn money and what to live on) it matters who is on the list and who is not. According to Reuters, participants include AI, Copilot, Finance, Human Resources, Xbox, Windows and Devices. Data center operations, cyber security, sales and marketing are not included. That is, the company is willing to pay for the treatment of those who, among other things, "do artificial intelligence", but retain those who ensure their physical work and safety. Microsoft has about 223 thousand employees - 60 thousand jobs means that every fourth person received the letter. This is already the second "voluntary" optimization of the year: in April they started a program for employees with the sum of age and length of service over 70 (about 9 thousand talented, one third remaining), in July another 4,800 jobs were cut. People shrink, calculations grow. The decision is before the beginning of December, the departure is before the end of the year. Shares rose slightly on the day of the news. Officially, it adapts the workforce to changing needs. But the exclusion of data centers and cybersecurity from the plan speaks for itself: humanity has created artificial intelligence—and is now negotiating reparations for those it has barren. This AI will still screw everyone over, it just won't seem enough.