I can't tell if you're being earnest or trolling so I'm going to respond plainly.
At big corporations, there is usually an amount you are due from the company if they lay you off. It usually a multiple of your paycheck times the length of years worked there. Like if you worked there for 5 years and they laid you off, you'd get something like 10 weeks worth of pay. If you leave on your own volition you don't get it.
An early retirement package is usually above and beyond a severance package. As the old folks have no incentive to leave at just their severance package pay. Early retirement packages have to be voluntary so they aren't afoul of discrimination laws. If a company just cut a bunch of 55+ senior employees at the severance rate there would be a lawsuit filed immediately.
The joke I made about Oxy is because when they bought Anadarko they purposefully didn't follow any rules about voluntary early retirement. They had each employee interested in retiring early submit a number that they would be okay with walking away with. Oxy found the cheapest way to lay off the most people. The incentive for you to lowball yourself was that you'd have to work for Oxy and they'd probably keep you until you got fed up and quit for free.
At big corporations, there is usually an amount you are due from the company if they lay you off. It usually a multiple of your paycheck times the length of years worked there. Like if you worked there for 5 years and they laid you off, you'd get something like 10 weeks worth of pay. If you leave on your own volition you don't get it.
An early retirement package is usually above and beyond a severance package. As the old folks have no incentive to leave at just their severance package pay. Early retirement packages have to be voluntary so they aren't afoul of discrimination laws. If a company just cut a bunch of 55+ senior employees at the severance rate there would be a lawsuit filed immediately.
The joke I made about Oxy is because when they bought Anadarko they purposefully didn't follow any rules about voluntary early retirement. They had each employee interested in retiring early submit a number that they would be okay with walking away with. Oxy found the cheapest way to lay off the most people. The incentive for you to lowball yourself was that you'd have to work for Oxy and they'd probably keep you until you got fed up and quit for free.