- Return to the Office policy
- Negative changes to pension payout (no more lump sum offering)
- Your job is sent to India or AI (but you get to train them)
- (for Sales) You’re performance managed out because of unattainable quotas
- (L3/L4) You don’t have a large enough span of control and there are too many of you anyway.
- Your boss doesn’t like you because you’re not good at PowerPoint
- Reverse DEI
- You were on the network for only 7 hrs and 58 min on a Friday.
- You’re an Ind Contributor working on a legacy product or system
- You’re under 30 and see the writing on the wall from a long-term career perspective
I expect some people will have multiple answers.