Good question! I, and I think most of the people I talked to, would not consider that leaving the movement. I would look to whether the career decision was motivated by EA considerations, rather than whether the employer officially considers itself “EA”.
That being said, I do think some people who left EA might have left because of this misunderstanding: they were not a good fit for some small number of “EA careers” (e.g. 80 K priority paths), and therefore assumed there wasn’t a place in EA for them, even though that small list of careers is not a definitive list of what it means to be in EA. 80 K has tried to clarify this (e.g.
here), which I think is helpful, but there is probably still more to be done.
Good question! I, and I think most of the people I talked to, would not consider that leaving the movement. I would look to whether the career decision was motivated by EA considerations, rather than whether the employer officially considers itself “EA”.
That being said, I do think some people who left EA might have left because of this misunderstanding: they were not a good fit for some small number of “EA careers” (e.g. 80 K priority paths), and therefore assumed there wasn’t a place in EA for them, even though that small list of careers is not a definitive list of what it means to be in EA. 80 K has tried to clarify this (e.g.
here), which I think is helpful, but there is probably still more to be done.