>but employers do not feel beholden to their employees to reciprocate.

At a company like WotC you will get more than 2 weeks of pay worth of severance which is more than the employee equivalent of providing 2 weeks notice. There is also things like WARN in California which require much more than a 2 weeks notice when a doing a layoff.

>Many companies showed improved productivity when people were given flexibility.

Except that individual productivity is very often not the bottleneck. The goal should be making the process productive and efficient.

>only enforceable when the media is produced by humans

Hollywood has used AI and other machine produced graphics for special effects for years and that does not prevent the studio from having copyright over the movie.

>stop licking boots

Acknowledging how much value companies bring to both society and investors does not require licking boots or thinking they are a "poor endangered company."