微软向四分之一的员工提供自愿离职补偿方案。

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees in an effort to further reduce its headcount.
为了进一步减少员工人数，微软正向约 6 万名员工提供自愿离职方案。

Chief People Officer Amy Coleman to employees Monday detailing the terms of the voluntary exit offer, which will be available to roughly one quarter of Microsoft’s workforce.
首席人力资源官艾米·科尔曼周一向员工发送了一份备忘录，详细说明了自愿离职方案的条款，该方案将适用于微软大约四分之一的员工。

“This offer gives eligible employees who may be considering a future outside the company a new choice to make that transition now with support,” Hood said in the memo. “It also gives participating organizations another way to adapt their workforce to changing needs.”
胡德在备忘录中表示：“这项提议为符合条件、可能正在考虑离开公司的员工提供了一个新的选择，让他们能够在获得支持的情况下完成过渡。同时，它也为参与的机构提供了一种调整员工队伍以适应不断变化的需求的新途径。”

The buyouts will be available to select employees in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and India at level 70 and below in the company’s ranking system. That ceiling applies to the vice president level at the company.
此次买断计划将面向美国、英国、加拿大和印度的部分员工开放，员工级别需在公司职级体系中处于70级及以下。该级别上限适用于公司副总裁。

A Microsoft spokesperson said the offer will be comparable to the company’s standard severance package, which varies by market but typically includes base pay for a certain amount of time (based on tenure), stock options granted over time, health care, and career planning services.
微软发言人表示，该方案将与公司标准的离职补偿方案相当，该方案因市场而异，但通常包括一定时间的基本工资（根据工龄而定）、随时间授予的股票期权、医疗保健和职业规划服务。

The exit offer comes a few months after Microsoft offered voluntary early retirement to employees of a certain tenure at level 67 and below. About 30% of eligible employees took that offer, though Microsoft expects this broader round of buyouts to have a smaller adoption rate. That’s, in part, because the voluntary retirement program offered more generous terms to incentivize uptake.
此次离职补偿方案是在微软向67级及以下、工龄达到一定年限的员工提供自愿提前退休计划几个月后推出的。当时约有30%的符合条件的员工接受了该计划，但微软预计此次更大规模的买断方案的接受率会更低。部分原因是之前的自愿退休计划提供了更为优厚的条件，以鼓励员工参与。

Eligibility for the new program was determined by the heads of each organization at Microsoft. That means the sales organization, some corporate services like marketing, and some engineering teams will not be participating.
新项目的参与资格由微软各部门负责人决定。这意味着销售部门、部分企业服务部门（例如市场营销部门）以及部分工程团队将不会参与该项目。

The spokesperson said artificial intelligence is not driving the buyout programs. Microsoft has, however, been on an employee-cutting spree for several years as it invests billions of dollars into the infrastructure needed to train and run AI models.
发言人表示，人工智能并非此次收购计划的驱动因素。然而，微软近年来一直在大幅裁员，同时斥资数十亿美元用于训练和运行人工智能模型所需的基础设施建设。

“The Voluntary Exit Offer is new for us. … There is no one-size-fits-all approach for every team or every employee,” Hood said in the memo. “These are a few of the ways we’re trying to meet different business needs while continuing to create opportunities for our own people to grow and contribute.”
“自愿离职方案对我们来说是全新的……没有一种方案适用于所有团队或所有员工，”胡德在备忘录中写道。“这些是我们尝试满足不同业务需求，同时继续为员工创造成长和贡献机会的几种方式。”