Comment on Google offering ‘voluntary exit’ for employees working on Pixel, Android
Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
So, unless you’re enslaved, every job has a “voluntary exit”. It’s called “quitting”. What Zuck and his people are trying to do is downsize without the bad press that comes from… uh, firing people. I mean “downsizing”…
Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The difference here is that leaving would come with a severance package. Offering the same kind of severance package that a company would normally give during layoffs, but allowing people to selectively take it seems like a very reasonable way to handle reducing payroll.
I imagine that, if not enough people take the offer, they might then have layoffs so this seems like a pretty humane and nice way to handle a tough situation.