SUSE has reportedly approached longtime employees about the possibility of voluntary separation, according to The Register. The request appears to be part of broader shifts at the Linux company, which is also seeing its workforce unionize and its distribution evolve.
The report notes that the personnel question comes as staff organize, and that the distro itself is not untouched by change. No further details about the scale of the separation offer or the nature of the distro modifications were provided in the source.
Because this is a single report, there are no independent accounts to compare against. The Register's coverage frames the move as one of several concurrent developments at SUSE, but the exact motivations and expected outcomes remain unclear from the available information.