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0 pointsmbreese7y ago0 comments

If they don’t get enough employees to voluntarily leave, you can be sure that there will be forced layoffs (with probably worse terms).

Imagine you’re a 50 year old employee with a kid in college. Would you be thrilled to accept a year of salary with limited job prospects? What jobs do you think will be the first to be cut?

Don’t try to sugar coat it - when there are lay-offs (voluntarily or not), it’s rarely a positive for the majority of affected employees. And this in no way should be considered a positive effect of the corporate tax cuts.

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TangoTrotFox7y ago

Here's a more reasonable question. If you ask 10,000 random workers from various tech companies if they'd be willing to leave in exchange for more than a year of salary, + benefits, + a bonus. What percent would say yes? We can only imagine, but it's going to be huge.

If you don't want to leave, don't apply. And on that note - yeah people did have to apply, and some were rejected.

jhfdbkofdcho7y ago

You’re presuming that those workers have good prospects for finding a new job as good as the one they currently have. This is harder when you are older.

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