Your logic assumes that people are staying only for the severance.
You have not accounted for all options of why someone might stay at a company. The person you’re speaking to:
- May want to work for Broadcom, particularly if they think attrition may allow them growth
- Alternatively if Broadcom sells their BU, may want to work for whatever company acquires
- May have life circumstances that make a move poorly timed right now (buying a house, stressful situation like a divorce they don’t want to compound by adding also starting a new job, visa issues)
- May have life circumstances such as top end of their pay range and not in a geography or role where there are comparably paid jobs
- May prefer waiting to have better information in which to decide
- May be in a role that is harder to find a job in and maybe they are already looking
I don’t think you have enough information to judge what is best for someone else.
This had to be in a thread of its own. It was posted in an older thread by @hmo+1jpHVyvB.