For small tech companies it is a nuclear option. Unless everyone hates the employee it will only go badly. For instance: a tech company I used to work for, a

For small tech companies it is a nuclear option. Unless everyone hates the employee it will only go badly. For instance: a tech company I used to work for, a well liked employee left to go work for a company he used to consult for. The owner threatened hard to sue. It made the papers, the lawsuit alone would have ended us, but now local companies didn’t want to sign either because our reputation tanked, and many of the employees threatened to quit.