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BY Taylor Hatmaker

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Microsoft is giving an enormous swath of its workforce an easy out—if they want it.

On Monday Amy Coleman, Microsoft’s chief people officer, announced that the company would extend a voluntary exit offer to eligible employees, allowing them to transition out of the company with financial support. Coleman framed the buyout offer as a way for Microsoft workers “considering a future outside the company” to make that move now, helpfully reducing the tech giant’s costly head count in the process.

At Microsoft, 60,000 workers are expected to receive the offer—more than 25% of the company’s total workforce. “The Voluntary Exit Offer is new for us,” Coleman wrote in the memo to staff, also shared on the company’s blog.…