The software giant said the buyouts will be available to certain workers at a vice presidential level and below, following waves of layoffs in recent years.
San Francisco | Microsoft will offer buyouts to about 60,000 workers, part of the company’s efforts to trim costs and retool its workforce for the artificial intelligence era.
Some personnel in the US, Canada, India and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible, said a Microsoft spokesperson.
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Some of Microsoft’s most popular products, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot, stopped working across the world. Burt the company says it is seeing “encouraging recovery progress”.
Microsoft said server issues were behind the incident but there was no malicious activity.
Governments, businesses, individuals were disrupted globally as server failures stretch into second day.
The BBC's Nadine Yousif's reports that Microsoft services like Outlook are slowly coming back online, but the company noted users "may still experience intermittent access issues".
Hospitals, GPs, police forces and property agents have had to find a workaround for Microsoft packages
Microsoft rules out any malicious "cyber or AI" activity after a worldwide outage disrupted healthcare services, delayed corporate earnings reports and left schools struggling to communicate.
