Job-hopping is no sin when you can get a 25% pay increase whenever you do it, and companies will only give their retained employees 2.5% raises (while cutting t

Job-hopping is no sin when you can get a 25% pay increase whenever you do it, and companies will only give their retained employees 2.5% raises (while cutting their benefits by 5%). Job-hopping is no sin when you are an "at will" employee with no contract. Some companies think nothing of firing 10% of their employees every year, and replacing them with fresh faces. Is that not the same thing from the other side of the table? The company who rejects you for job-hopping is explicitly rejecting your self-agency and your right to continually re-evaluate your business relationships, in exactly the same way that companies do when they fire bad employees. You fire bad employers. It is no different. The relationship is work for pay. If they want you to stay, they have to ensure that relationship stays mutually beneficial every week that you work for them. No, don't be careful. If there is no contract specifying otherwise, you owe your employer nothing next week, and they will owe you your pay for this week. That is all. Corporate loyalty is dead, and the corporate employers killed it. It is not our fault that the harvest they are now reaping is bitter in their mouths. If you are offered higher pay somewhere else, start there next Monday, and tell your current employer on Friday that you won't be back next week. We have all done it in this industry. 25% more is too good to pass up, and they know it. Let them be the ones to start offering contracts with severances and notice periods and guaranteed raises and bonuses. That company who won't hire job-hoppers will find that word gets around, and qualified people will simply stop sending their resumes and entertaining interview requests.