It depends. If you can be replaced at a cheaper cost, why wouldn't a company do it considering they can. The question is: What does it cost to replace someone a

It depends. If you can be replaced at a cheaper cost, why wouldn't a company do it considering they can. The question is: What does it cost to replace someone and is it worth it ? Here is how I look at it: There are 4 types of employees in a company. 1. "Should be partner" Players: You not only do a great job, add tremendous value but you think about the business and team and go out of your way to help improve things. You genuinely care not just about getting things done but long term success of the team/company etc. You live and breathe this thing. You wake up on a weekend thinking about work and how you can improve things. You should be like a partner ideally. Most large companies do not value you enough. If you ever slip, you hate yourself for that and want to frikin punish yourself for making that mistake. Your team not only loves to rely on you but they NEED you so bad. If I have anyone in my company who is "Should be partner" player, you bet I will fight hard to give them whatever they want. I would keep them happy even before they want to be happy. 2. A Players: You are very good at your job, take things seriously, get shit done, genuinely participate BUT you have limits and cannot go beyond a certain level. You won't wake up on Saturday thinking about that enhancement you want to make. You are ok to wait till Monday. You hardly slip but if you do, you recognize it immediately and work on it. Your team loves to rely on you. You hardly need a reminder to do better. If I have A Players in my company, I would do my best not to lose them. 3. B Players: You do the bare minimum to get by. You may sometimes need a kick up your butt to do a bit more but usually you do enough to not get noticed. People don't prefer to rely on you and if they have to, they are usually cautious. You need a bit more management and ensuring things are happening on your end and your team/manager needs to check on you on a regular basis. 4. C Players: You don't really do anything useful and either will get fired at some point or you are smart enough to hide yourself usually in a large organization. You couldn't care less about anything except a paycheck. No one can ever rely on you. Your team doesn't care about you. They wouldn't notice if you were gone. So ask yourself: which player are you ? Sure, sometimes an A player could become a B Player etc but if you are wondering today, where do you stand ? If you are B or C, you can certainly be replaced with a cheaper option considering all else is same.