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You could tell your boss you can't bring yourself to lay anyone off so you'll quit yourself. They give you severance, and promote someone from under you without

• rnk 4y ago
  You can't know usually if your leaving will prevent the other layoffs. It could be the company still lays off part of your team and now you don't get the ability/punishment to have to pick them. I love quitting a job, it puts the power in my hands. I'm fortunate to work as a dev and have almost infinite employment opportunities at the time. Is the same true for your team? It might be that some of them want to leave too, esp because of the severance. An incredibly brave but potentially great thing would be to open up to your team about it. Maybe some of them would be happy to get severance, another is say having a baby and wants stability. Someone mentioned this on hacker news recently.
• ajb 4y ago
  If they are laying of people for financial reasons, they expect additional people to leave. So you won't necessarily save anyone by declaring that you are going to go, because that is already priced in.
• spfzero 4y ago
  I'm not sure about the severance, you would certainly need to negotiate that. I did know a person who offered to take the layoff even though they were not slated to, and it worked out fine for them. They got the layoff severance, COBRA, etc. that you would normally not get if you quit. But it would be different in each situation.
• paulcole 4y ago
  If somebody quits, most companies’ next words won’t be, “Here’s your severance.” You’re going to need to tell them, “I’m willing to quit in exchange for X.”