Microsoft’s 60,000 and $175 billion
When workforce changes and vast investment sit side by side, should printers measure headcount reduced or production capacity gained?
About 60,000 people are not necessarily leaving. Microsoft has presented a voluntary separation programme for about 60,000 eligible employees, alongside a capital-investment plan reaching about $175 billion even after an accounting reclassification. There is no public material directly linking the two. But viewed together, they raise a question: what should measure the results of reallocating fixed costs?
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Microsoft has offered about 60,000 people the option of leaving. This is the number eligible to apply, not the number of applicants or actual departures. Those covered are employees at level 70 or below in participating divisions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and India.…
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