Microsoft 在四個國家推出自願離職計劃

Microsoft introduced a Voluntary Exit Offer on October 26, 2026, giving eligible employees in participating teams in Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States the option to leave the company with financial support and career planning resources.

Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer Amy Coleman shared the communication with employees, and Microsoft published the message, a Viva Engage post edited slightly for external use, on the Official Microsoft Blog. Coleman wrote that the offer gives eligible employees who may be thinking about a future beyond Microsoft a supported option to make that move now, and that it gives participating organizations another way to adjust their workforces as needs change.

Microsoft’s Facts About Microsoft page lists the company’s worldwide employment headcount at 223,000 as of September 30, 2026, with 121,000 employees in the United States and 102,000 internationally. The page lists Satya Nadella as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Program Terms and Eligibility

The offer is available to eligible employees in participating teams across the four countries at level 70 and below. Microsoft described the program as time-limited and voluntary, giving those who are eligible the opportunity to leave with financial support and career planning resources. Participation is not uniform across the company: some organizations are providing the Voluntary Exit Offer and some are not, varying based on each business’s priorities, customer commitments, and workforce needs.

Coleman wrote that the offer reflects an evolution in Microsoft’s approach to change, creating greater flexibility and, where possible, more ways for employees to choose their next step. She said it builds on what Microsoft learned earlier in 2026 through its Voluntary Retirement Program.

“The Voluntary Exit Offer is new for us. We’ll learn from it,” Coleman wrote. She said there is no one-size-fits-all approach for every team or every employee, describing the offer as one of the ways Microsoft is trying to meet different business needs while continuing to create opportunities for its people to grow and contribute. She said Microsoft will keep helping employees focus on their most important work, build new skills, and find new opportunities across the company where it makes sense, and she promised to continue to provide clarity, listen and learn, and keep improving.

Prior Workforce Actions in 2026

The new offer follows workforce changes Microsoft detailed earlier in 2026. In a July 6, 2026 employee communication, Coleman said the company was eliminating around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of its global workforce, with the changes falling mostly within its Commercial and Xbox organizations. She said more than 30% of eligible employees had chosen to participate in the company’s voluntary retirement program, and that Microsoft would continue exploring similar approaches in the future.

Coleman also said in July that Microsoft had redeployed more than 4,000 employees into new roles over the preceding year, including another 500 that month, and that the company would transition four of its gaming studios to operate under new management, aimed at preserving the studios’ intellectual property and current projects. She framed the July decisions around two commitments: making the hard calls needed to deliver differentiated value to customers, and supporting the people those decisions affect.

Explaining the July changes, Coleman said Microsoft’s business is changing because the world around it is changing, with customers’ needs and the business models serving them shifting, requiring the company to adjust resources, roles, and how it operates. Within the Commercial business, she said the changes built on Microsoft’s Frontier Company announcement, changing how teams operate and placing engineering experts directly alongside customers to speed their technology deployments; in Xbox, she said the company was restructuring to position the business for long-term success.

Coleman addressed AI’s role in the July changes directly, stating that the eliminated roles were not being replaced by AI. At the same time, she said AI is changing how work gets done, that some everyday tasks can now be automated, and that employees must continue learning, building new skills, and adapting as work changes.

Eligible employees will receive an email with a link to their Voluntary Exit Offer details within hours of the announcement, according to Coleman’s message.

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