Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to employees in the US, Canada, India and the UK, with Ars Technica putting the number of eligible staff at 60,000, about a quarter of its workforce. Ars Technica
Ars TechnicaMicrosoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforceEmployees in the US, Canada, India, and the UK may receive offers to leave MS today.
Is a voluntary buyout on this scale a gentler alternative to layoffs, or the same cut by another route?