There's another aspect this article doesn't mention that I think about a lot.

I've been on the same team for over a decade, as have many of my teammates. I've probably spent more time in the same room with some of these people than I have my wife and kids. We've shared hundreds of meals together, built things together, struggled together, traveled together, laughed, grieved.

In all meaningful senses of the word, they are my tribe.

And if one of us gets laid off, we're effectively forcibly ejected from the tribe by a complete stranger.

Yes, we can socialize outside of work too, and we do sometimes. But there is simply no replacement for the kind of connection you get from working on the same project together for hours a day every day.