There's a more obvious demographic that they'd be cutting. The US government / Trump administration is blocking things like international visas etc, and demanding that people who work on gov contracts be US citizens -- and they've specifically targeted / highlighted Microsoft as a 'problem' on that front. Microsoft hasn't disclosed which regions these 'buyouts' are impacting.

My guess would be that its largely in places like India, the EU and Canada. Especially as the more US gov control is excerpted, the more data sovereignty pushes get attention, the less business MS projects outside the US.