Imagine if your company offered you six months’ worth of salary if you quit your job right now. Would you go? What if they threw in early stock vesting and health insurance for a year?
It’s a tough decision that workers are facing at various companies. Microsoft and NPR are two of the latest big firms to announce buyout offers, but it can happen anywhere — just ask state workers in North Dakota or employees of the Salt Lake City Public Library system.
There is no easy answer to whether you should take a buyout and run. In the end, it’s going to depend on your financial situation, where you are in your career and how you feel about digging up your resume again…