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by williamsmj 1020 days ago
This is good advice for contract workers, but is not applicable for the vast majority of "at will" W-2 employees in the US, where terms of employment can be amended ... at will.
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It does help you when you have to talk to the unemployment claim adjudicator and the employer tries to claim you quit.

If you can say, "They made a huge change to the terms of my employment. See? Right here, when they hired me, it said 100% remote role," then they're still on the hook for the charge even though you "voluntarily" quit.

(Source: Spent a couple years adjudicating UI claims early in my career.)

That's a good point! (Although in practice I assume the terms of a "voluntary resignation" under something like https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-voluntary-resignation... are written to make that claim very difficult.)