I don't know if I'm a top 10% employee, but I'll share how layoffs influenced my decision to leave a job of 5+ years. I started looking for a new role after they announced the layoff of about 200 people in my organization. When I finally got an offer, I kept going back and forth on staying and negotiating or accepting the offer. There were many other reasons why I left, but a huge factor were the layoffs. I just kept thinking, they already had layoffs, what's to stop them from laying me off next? It's also a crappy feeling thinking that you/your team can be on the chopping block at any time.