> Never forget that your employer will gleefully lay off their most loyal employees if doing so is somehow in alignment with some executive’s comp.

I work at a global mega corp run by private equity guy. This is definitely not the way our management works. From my manager up through our BU head, people are valued as a long term investment and are not casually discarded. Yes, if you are not productive, you can be dismissed. But valuable people are not taken for granted at any level of seniority in my experience.