Microsoft employees urge rethink of AI strategy as company offers buyouts to 60,000 workers

The employees said Microsoft's workplace had become increasingly demoralising amid heavy AI investments, repeated reorganisations, rising workloads and concerns that AI could eventually replace jobs. A group of current and former Microsoft employees has circulated an open letter criticising the company's aggressive push into artificial intelligence, raising concerns over employee workloads, job security, customer safety and the environmental impa