Big Tech Voluntary Buyouts Reshape How Silicon Valley Cuts Jobs

Big Tech Voluntary Buyouts Reshape How Silicon Valley Cuts Jobs

Big Tech voluntary buyouts are emerging as a preferred first step in workforce reductions across Silicon Valley, with Google workers pressing for the practice to become company policy and Microsoft completing its first large-scale programme of this kind in more than five decades. At Google, more than 100 employees rallied outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters this month, with some travelling from offices outside the Bay Area, accordin…