[vorador]

This is such an adversarial read of things. Some companies do offer employees to quit in exchange for some compensation. It's win-win, the company reduces costs and the employee doesn't work at a place they don't want to be at. The whole "the employee can cause damage to the company" view is ridiculous – guess what, the employee can already do damage to the company while employed there, yet they don't.

[ergocoder]

It is not a win for the company to have low performers stay and high performers leave.

> The whole "the employee can cause damage to the company" view is ridiculous – guess what, the employee can already do damage to the company while employed there, yet they don't.

Yeah, because they don't know they will be fired. They aren't angry employees.

Laid off employees are angry.

Let's talk about being obtuse.

[jesuscript]

Furthermore, imagine if someone unknowingly embarks on a major step in life like buying a home, getting married, pregnant, moving, etc, and boom this hammer drops. You live on your toes if this is how the companies behave.

[ergocoder]

Companies always behave this way. Companies do what is best for themselves, and sometimes it benefits both companies and employees.

In the case of layoff, the company wouldn't be benefit at all if low performers stay and high performers leave. Actually the company might collapse.