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On loyalty to Your Employer

Your employer pays you to spend more time with them than you spend with your family and/or loved ones. Your employer is one of the biggest influencers on your mental well-being. Your employer can and will replace you in a heartbeat if absolutely necessary. Let me be explicitly clear, your employer

Despite this enormous disparity, I’m constantly witness to colleagues in the tech industry posting on LinkedIn about how great their employer is and why everyone should drop everything and come and work with them, only for them to announce a few short years later that they are moving on “to bigger and better things”. Not every company has a helpful Glassdoor profile (a lot of startups have yet to be reviewed) so take to social media, and look up current and former employees to see if there are any red flags. If your employer compensates you well, puts effort into ensuring you are healthy in every sense and invests in your personal and/or professional growth then by all means, tell the world how happy you are.

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