Microsoft posts $33.6bn profit after offering buyouts to one in four workers BBCMicrosoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees to contain costs ReutersMicrosoft Is Trying to Shed a Lot of Workers. Just Don’t Call It a Layoff. WSJI’m the ex-VP of HR at Microsoft. Here’s what the 60,000 employees mulling a buyout may not realize. Business InsiderThis WA man gave Microsoft 31 years — then was fired. Now 60K former colleagues are being offered a choice he never got Yahoo Finance