{"id":1048392,"date":"2026-11-10T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048392"},"modified":"2026-11-10T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:56:25","slug":"microsoft-buyouts-concerned-workers-write-open-letter-to-management-urge-rethink-of-speed-at-all-costs-ai-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/10\/microsoft-buyouts-concerned-workers-write-open-letter-to-management-urge-rethink-of-speed-at-all-costs-ai-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft buyouts: \u2018Concerned workers\u2019 write open letter to management, urge rethink of \u2018speed-at-all-costs\u2019 AI push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of current and former employees, who described themselves as \u2018Concerned Microsoft Workers\u2019, have written an open letter to Microsoft management, which recently rolled out a buyout for around 66,000 of its staff, amid an aggressive AI push.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, they have raised concerns over the company&#8217;s aggressive artificial intelligence (AI) expansion, questioning its impact on workplace conditions, employment security, customer safety and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of current and former employees, who described themselves as \u2018Concerned Microsoft Workers\u2019, have written an open letter to Microsoft management, which recently rolled out a buyout for around 66,000 of its staff, amid an aggressive AI push. In the letter, they have raised concerns over the company&#8217;s aggressive artificial intelligence (AI) expansion, questioning its impact on workplace conditions, employment security, customer safety and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048392","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048393,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048392\/revisions\/1048393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}