retention bonuses
Stay-put cash rewards
Retention bonuses are payments offered to employees as an incentive to stay with a company during a critical period—a merger, restructuring, or transition.
Unlike performance bonuses, they reward loyalty rather than achievement: The firm offered retention bonuses to keep key engineers from jumping ship during the acquisition.
The practice is common in industries where talent poaching is rampant.
- stayRemain in position
- loyaltyFaithful commitment to another
- golden handcuffsFinancial incentives preventing departure
- lock inCommit to irrevocably
- incentiveReward encouraging action
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Compensation upon job termination
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