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Isn't it possible to just not give people severance packages?

• swiftcoder 1y ago
  Depends what sort of contract they have (and/or how much perceived leverage they have - firing high-income workers who have a public platform can make for messy PR)
• deviation 1y ago
  Somewhere between 85% and 90% of all countries have some sort of mandated severance pay in the event of a layoff. A small percentage of countries also mandate severance even if the employee is fired (with cause).
  • oytis 1y ago
    US doesn't seem to be such a country though?
• ivanbakel 1y ago
  It is likely too late for many existing contracts with packages built-in, which probably also overlap with the longest-working (and thus most expensive) engineers.