If you have 100 useless employees and you offer them each $50k to leave of their own volition, you will reduce the number of bad employees and save money. You w

If you have 100 useless employees and you offer them each $50k to leave of their own volition, you will reduce the number of bad employees and save money. You won't have any legal obligations because they're leaving on their own. This is how it works at various big, powerful tech companies (although the severance offer often comes with a "performance improvement plan" as the alternative, a bit of a carrot/stick situation which usually gets people out the door pretty quick).