In 2014 Harvard Business Review Press published The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age, by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh. The book says that “a business is far more like a sports team than a family.”
The authors say the old deal of “lifelong employment in exchange for loyal service” no longer fits. They propose that employer and employee agree on a “tour of duty,” with a specific mission and a set time frame. One review says the authors have in mind a tour of two to four years.