Interesting video commentary on the latest streak of mass layoffs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjA-HnllUIs
Bleeding obvious quote: "Employer loyalty is dead and the employer ki-led it, not the employee."
In truth, "employer loyalty" has been dying since the 1980s, back when Boomer career-starters were being continuously threatened with terminal unemployment for showing the least little resistance to selling their soul for the bottom line. I think it's only been recently that we can see all the nails being hammered into that coffin in such stark relief.
There's gotta be a reckoning coming, culturally (or, there should be). If companies are going to be operating as they do wrt chronically acquiring & shedding talent, there needs to be a massive shift in the expectations that candidate employees have of those companies. Namely in the realm of corporate expectations of owning the labor they pay out a salary for -- cf. TK's rants about "moonlighting" -- rather than renting it.
Anyway, the video does a good job reaffirming my own professional outlook of acting like a free agent regardless of your FTE tax status. Worth a look.