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5 questions to ask if your boss offers you a buyout, as Microsoft did with 60,000 employees

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Two days after Microsoft asked more than a quarter of its workers if they’d take a buyout, it reported $45.2 billion in capital spending in a single quarter, most of it for AI.

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