https://www.fastcompany.com/91322766/microsoft-is-allegedly-paying-low-performers-to-quit
Microsoft will now pay some employees to leave amid continued crackdown against ‘low performers’
https://www.financialexpress.com/business/industry-microsoft-will-now-pay-some-employees-to-leave-amid-continued-crackdown-against-low-performers-3821423/
Microsoft is firing US employees and moving the jobs to India. It has nothing to do with low performance, in most cases.
Article ends on a lame note. This is not about mistrusting the company; this is about the company doing what it needs to in order to stay relevant for the next decades in the fast-changing world of AI dominance. Call them low performers, time to move on, need new and different skill, or whatever it is, 12 wks pay vs nothing, aka employment at will, it's an OK deal.