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US-based IT giant Microsoft has announced that it will be recruiting employees from four countries: the US, Canada, the UK and India. The US media covers 27% of the workforce…
Japanese public opinion
Reactions in the comment sections of related Japanese TV news videos on YouTube.
Positive / Negative toward: Microsoft's voluntary-retirement program for about 60,000 employees to fund AI
Positive points
Early retirement with a big payout sounds great; I'd sign up if my company did it.
Japanese companies should do the same to cut costs and stay competitive.
Stock prices should rise since cutting payroll boosts profits.
Negative points
AI-driven layoffs will leave many people without work.
They're cutting jobs even while profits hit record highs.
We need AI taxes or basic income before inequality gets worse.
This is not a random-sample survey. It covers only comments posted on these YouTube videos, which were classified and summarized by AI. The speech bubbles are AI-written paraphrases of common points, not quotes from actual comments.