Microsoft is offering a new voluntary exit package to certain employees at experience level 70 or below in the United States, Canada, India and the United Kingdom. Around 60,000 people are eligible. The company is ramping up data-center spending to meet strong artificial intelligence demand and provide cloud services to Anthropic, OpenAI and other clients, putting pressure on its finances. In April, Microsoft announced its first voluntary retirement program, which around 7% of its U.S. employees were eligible for. In the second quarter, Microsoft maintained positive free cash flow while cloud rivals Alphabet and Amazon reported negative free cash flow, and some marketing, sales and engineering teams decided not to participate in the new program.
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