{"id":662269,"date":"2026-10-31T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662269\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:10:10","slug":"are-microsofts-voluntary-buyouts-a-sign-of-whats-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662269\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Microsoft\u2019s Voluntary Buyouts a Sign of What\u2019s to Come?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"UwInRW_text\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">On October 26, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/26\/technology\/microsoft-buyouts-ai-spending.html\" class=\"qKDjGa_anchor\">Microsoft offered voluntary buyout packages<\/a> to 60,000 employees\u2014one quarter of its global workforce. It\u2019s part of a growing trend of profitable companies taking dramatic steps to cut labor costs, but the tool\u2014voluntary buyouts\u2014is hardly new. Wayne Cascio, now a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Denver, has been studying how companies downsize workers since the 1990s, when he wrote the book Responsible Restructuring: Creative and Profitable Alternatives to Layoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On October 26, Microsoft offered voluntary buyout packages to 60,000 employees\u2014one quarter of its global workforce. It\u2019s part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-662269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}