Microsoft is extending buyout offers to around 60,000 employees, according to reports from Business Insider and Bloomberg. The move is the company's latest effort to cut costs and reshape its workforce for an AI-driven future - because if there's one thing AI excels at, it's making humans wonder if they should update their resumes.

The offers are available to employees at the vice president level and below on select teams in the U.S., Canada, India, and the U.K. Notably excluded: data center workers, sales, and marketing staff - presumably because someone still has to keep the servers humming and the PowerPoints persuasive.

Microsoft's Chief People Officer Amy Coleman sent a note to employees on Monday announcing the buyouts. "The Voluntary Exit Offer reflects an important part of how we're evolving our approach to change: creating greater flexibility and, where possible, more ways for employees to shape their next chapter," the note read. Translation: here's a door, and it's slightly ajar.

The note continued: "This offer gives eligible employees who may be considering a future outside the company a new choice to make that transition now with support." Support, in this case, meaning benefits similar to a standard severance package, per the reports.

Earlier this year, Microsoft tested the waters with buyouts for retirement-age employees. More than 30% of the roughly 8,750 eligible workers took the deal - a statistic that suggests either the package was attractive or the retirement-age crowd was already eyeing a life of leisure.

Microsoft did not immediately respond to TechCrunch's request for comment, leaving us to speculate about whether the company's AI strategy includes a chatbot that can attend exit interviews.