The relationship employee-employer is adversarial, the "we are a family" or "we take care of you" is a lie that unfortunately for the employee works more than e

The relationship employee-employer is adversarial, the "we are a family" or "we take care of you" is a lie that unfortunately for the employee works more than expected. Just remember that the employer is not asking you what do you think about you being laid off. They just do it. It might reasonable on their part when looking at the "state of the business", but you as a lower-level employee (not C-level) has no say in any of those decision, you get what is thrown at you. I have also happen to believe that fewer hours, less stress, more flexibility are worth a lot of the money that is given up by not moving to a better-paying but more stress-inducing company. That's also the choice I made. But if I can get 1.5X, 2X etc. at my current company, you bet I am taking it big time.