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Growth Without Jobs Is Borrowed Time: Who Gets the Gains When Machines Do the Work?

Microsoft's exit offer to 27 per cent of its workforce, made while the company remains profitable, is a clear sign that AI-led restructuring is structural, not cyclical. That puts India's IT-based jobs ladder and its youth bulge at the centre of the future-of-work debate. An editorial warns that Microsoft's voluntary exit offer to 60,000 employees signals a permanent, AI-driven structural reduction in global tech workforces…