It's rather strange that employees are expected to give advanced notice when quitting, but employers are not expected to give advanced notice when firing people.
Well on the flip side I know many people who've received severance pay after being let go, but I don't know anyone who's provided labor to a company for months after leaving.
Someone who replaced you but you don't know reaches out asking for help on their work? Or you're being asked questions you'd need to dig in to? "Sorry, I don't work there anymore".
But answering a text message from someone you had a good relationship with, who is asking a question in good faith, the answer to which you can recall without effort? Wouldn't agree with calling that consulting.
If the latter, how do you justify that as "exploitation"?
It's almost universal that layoffs include (at minimum) a few weeks of full pay. Sometimes months.
It's effectively the same as getting advanced notice, you just aren't expected to do any work after you get notice.
<Insert land of freedom here>
Coinbase offered 3.5 months' severance pay minimum, plus additional severance pay based on employee tenure. If that's a poorly done layoff, what's a well-done one?
Just went through this on a move to Austin from Chicago. I was legitimately scared for my life until the end of my first day at the new job. I have savings, of course, but the pressure is still there.
In many places and industries, you become a risk when you give notice, and are cut off from company resources immediately.
This is most visible in the financial industry, but I've seen it elsewhere too.
It's not really a big deal. Everyone understands it, and you just adjust your communication choices accordingly.
which sounds like to me a carte blanche permission to not do any more work after giving notice if that happens.
Sounds harsh if you're not used to it. But it makes a lot of sense within the industry, and no one's feelings get hurt in practice.