I would imagine that while they made the buyout eligible pool 60k employees, the actual number that they’d allow to agree would be capped somewhere below that.

That’s usually how these voluntary severance packages work.

and a person i know who is planning to move to seattle, he had been laid of tech since 23,.

I read a few words before a full page add appeared and I GTFO out of there. Like nobody these days tolerate that shit at all. It's not that interesting otter than the possible collapse of the global economy is probably happening right now. So I'll wait until someone posts the text.