The company may want to keep its best employees, but those employees are by definition the best equipped to leave, the most likely to have experienced lay-offs

The company may want to keep its best employees, but those employees are by definition the best equipped to leave, the most likely to have experienced lay-offs before, the most expensive, and the most knowledgeable about the financial state of the company. Most of them are going to hop on LinkedIn the moment lay-offs are announced.