Satya Nadella’s old AI workforce vision video resurfaces after 60,000 Microsoft employees offered exit scheme — WATCH

In an old  interview, the Microsoft chief imagined a future in which “20,000” human employees could work alongside “2 million or even 20 million AI agents.”

A video of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella resurfaced on social media after the company reportedly offered a voluntary exit offer (VEO) to around 60,000 employees.

A video from June 2026, featuring Nadella in a conversation with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman on the Possible podcast, emerged on X this week, where he talks about his vision of a workplace powered by millions of artificial intelligence agents.

In the interview, the Microsoft chief imagined a future in which “20,000" human employees could work alongside “2 million or even 20 million” AI agents.

On the future, Nadella said, “…What I think we have not yet gotten right under a good understanding and a shared understanding is what is this future of work going to look like when you have…let's take Microsoft, we have 20,000 employees and we have let's say 2 million uh agents or 20 million agents all in a loop.”

“What is happenin, what is the tacet knowledge that gets created, what is the artifacts that are going between agents, between agents and humans and so on. All that's now going to be played out in the next whatever even multiple years. You can see early,” Nadella had said in the podcast.

Microsoft's voluntary exit programme

On October 26, Microsoft announced a voluntary exit programme covering more than a quarter of its global workforce, including eligible employees in India, the US, the UK and Canada.

A statement attributed to Amy Coleman, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, and shared on the Microsoft blog, read, “Today, we’re introducing a new Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO) to eligible employees within participating organizations.”

"This is a time-limited, voluntary program that gives those who are eligible the opportunity to leave Microsoft with financial support and career planning resources," the statement added.

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