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One comment on this is when you leave a company is customary to give your two weeks. Companies rarely offer than consideration for employees. This unbalanced power dynamic is even greater as a layoff doesn’t mean a catastrophic situation for the company but for the employee it often is. The two events shouldn’t be compared apples to apples.

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> Companies rarely offer than consideration for employees

In almost all layoff situations, employees get severance even in the US no?

At least for the big tech layoffs that seemed to be the case.

This is the case for big tech, almost never for small businesses in usa

Define small business, because unless you are talking a mom and pop shop, my experience is severance is still a thing and definitely not big tech exclusive.

Any company under 50 employees, which makes up 85% of American businesses. And even bigger companies outside of tech usually give really small severance. Tech is basically the only area where you get 3-6 month packages for a standard lay off.

Big tech is unique in usually giving severance. I’ve only seen it given to non director+ titles once in my career

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