Companies sometimes offer people good deals to leave due to slowing business. If you opted into this you would have been voluntarily laid off. If enough peopl

Companies sometimes offer people good deals to leave due to slowing business. If you opted into this you would have been voluntarily laid off. If enough people do it, then there are no involuntary layoffs. Japan Airlines did something similar with early retirement a few years back and offered their employees the chance to retire early in order to cut costs.