{"id":1046471,"date":"2026-11-02T08:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046471"},"modified":"2026-11-03T06:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:09:58","slug":"ai-boom-vs-jobs-microsoft-voluntary-exit-plan-signals-big-tech-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/02\/ai-boom-vs-jobs-microsoft-voluntary-exit-plan-signals-big-tech-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Boom vs Jobs: Microsoft voluntary exit plan signals Big Tech shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tech is confronting an uncomfortable question amid its artificial intelligence (AI) boom: can companies become more productive with fewer people? As billions of dollars flow into data centres, chips and AI applications, technology companies are reassessing workforce sizes, hiring plans and the skills they need. Microsoft\u2019s voluntary exit programme has brought this shift into focus, as AI redraws the boundaries between technology, productivity and jobs. <\/p>\n<p>The programme, described by executive vice-president and chief people officer Amy Coleman as a new approach to managing organisational change, offers eligible employees financial support and career-planning resources to leave the company. Around 60,000 employees globally are eligible, including those in India,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tech is confronting an uncomfortable question amid its artificial intelligence (AI) boom: can companies become more productive with fewer people? As billions of dollars flow into data centres, chips and AI applications, technology companies are reassessing workforce sizes, hiring plans and the skills they need. Microsoft\u2019s voluntary exit programme has brought this shift into focus, as AI redraws the boundaries between technology, productivity and jobs. The programme, described by executive vice-president and chief people officer Amy Coleman as a new approach to managing organisational change, offers eligible employees financial support and career-planning resources to leave the company. Around 60,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046479,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046471\/revisions\/1046479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}