You’re being extremely naive if you think of yourself as a traitor. If you stopped performing at your current level due to a major life event, most companies w

You’re being extremely naive if you think of yourself as a traitor. If you stopped performing at your current level due to a major life event, most companies would fire you. You’re a resource being expended by your employer. Even if they treat you well we all know that they’d stop paying you if you became terminally ill for any real length of time, and you very likely weren’t given a pension to support you in old age either. The companies least affected by this trend are the ones that have given their employees better bargains (see fedex v UPS)