Ok the flip side, I've worked in jobs that fired people on the spot when giving their two weeks and this is hardly unusual. The advice in the article might make

Ok the flip side, I've worked in jobs that fired people on the spot when giving their two weeks and this is hardly unusual. The advice in the article might make sense if the policies of the company are written down and the employee has reasonable cause to believe the company will follow them. Otherwise, the employee would be a total fool for following the advice here. It's not about starting the new job as early as possible. It's about not losing on two weeks of pay. Period. And more than two weeks? Yeah my current company wants four yet they won't pay a single cent in severance. They'll be lucky to get two. Sometimes there's also the revenge factor, though hopefully not in this particular case, one never knows. I do know that there's no loyalty from employers though and following the advice here is likely to lead to some unexpected and negative results for the employee in many cases.