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 abilit

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.