Microsoft's Seattle area HQ - Fair Use photo credit: knkx.org Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to roughly 60,000 employees—about 27 percent of its global workforce of 223,000—as the company pours an estimated $175 billion into artificial intelligence infrastructure this year. The move, announced October 26, is the latest and largest signal yet that Big Tech’s financing its AI build-out in part by constraining or reducing payroll. Chief People Officer Amy Coleman