workplace loyalty
Devotion to employer
Workplace loyalty is commitment to one's employer beyond contractual obligations—staying through difficulties, defending the company to outsiders, prioritizing its interests.
The concept cuts both ways: employers invoke it to discourage job-hopping or unionizing, while employees note that loyalty rarely flows downward during layoffs.
After twenty years of workplace loyalty, he was let go in the merger.
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- faithfulnessDevoted loyalty maintained
company man · tenure · years of service · retention · job security · gold watch · trust · company · corporate culture · employee · team player · career · steadfast · reliable · belonging · morale · teamwork · going the extra mile
- BoomersAARP, AARP member, empty nester, empty nesters, grandparent
workplace loyaltyjob-hopping
Frequently switching employers
employee turnover · jumping ship · quitting · flight risk · attrition
workplace loyaltycareerism
Excessive focus on advancement
opportunism · free agency · ladder-climbing · looking out for number one
workplace loyaltydisloyalty
Breach of allegiance
job-hopping · treachery · defection · desertion · selling out
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