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Some friends at Facebook have expressed conflicted feelings around the ongoing threat of layoffs – they sort of want to leave the company for something smaller,
by lfciv 4y ago
Some friends at Facebook have expressed conflicted feelings around the ongoing threat of layoffs – they sort of want to leave the company for something smaller, but they have an incentive to stay because they may get severance if their function is cut next month
- nagyf 4y agoI feel very similarly at Amazon. I wish I could volunteer for being laid off. I could use 3 months (with severance) without any work to try curing my burnout.
- lfciv 4y agoI guess the issue with allowing voluntary departures is that you could lose numbers of engineers in vital functions. Also I imagine there tends to be a bias towards your most confident engineers leaving since they know they'll have the highest likelihood of easily finding a new role?
- screwturner68 4y agoYou can I've known a few co-workers who have. They had another job already lined up so when the boss came looking for heads to chop they volunteered. They got a very nice severance, a short vacation and a new gig and the boss was happy he didn't have to pick someone to fire.