I don't know if it's an industry specific thing but my parents worked for big defense contractors and they would often talk about layoffs in conjunction with of

I don't know if it's an industry specific thing but my parents worked for big defense contractors and they would often talk about layoffs in conjunction with offers that people could take to leave voluntarily. Always signed crazy to me. My mom took one in 99, worked private industry for a couple years then came back to defense after the dot com crash for way more money.