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> Yeah... I'm genuinely curious how many people actually quit over the "apolitical" stance, vs employees that were just unhappy with the job in general and took this convenient opportunity to leave with a pretty sweet deal.

Getting people who are unhappy (politics aside) to leave sounds more like "the severance package was a nice move" than "the severance package was too good."

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Hmm that's a pretty interesting way of thinking about it, I didn't even consider it from that angle.

Might be a silly idea, but I wonder if more companies would benefit from doing something like this on a semi-regular basis, i.e. giving unhappy employees the opportunity to leave with a decent "severance" package?

Netflix takes the stance 'adequate performance gets a generous severance package.' You can read more in their culture doc that made the rounds a few years ago.

Original deck: https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664/

Up to date statement: http://jobs.netflix.com/culture

The problem with this is adverse selection: the employees who are worth the most elsewhere relative to their current comp would be the quickest to leave.

It would be great for those employees, though!

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