As part of your compensation package when you sign up, you're granted a set of unvested options. The idea is, as you work for the company and provide the value you've promised, the options become vested and are actually yours.
So why do you need to stay there to keep them? If I work at a company for a year and 25% of my options vest, why are the terms surrounding their exercise different depending on whether I choose to stay or not? I earned those options by working there for a year. Why is it fair to take them back if I decide to leave instead of stay?
Yes, I get that you're agreeing to that up front, so it's not like you should be surprised when the 90-day limit kicks in. I just wish option grant agreements weren't structured like that, but the employee has pretty much zero power to change that; these grants are pretty much take-it-or-leave-it, and the only point of negotiation seems to be in the quantity of the options. At best.
As part of your compensation package when you sign up, you're granted a set of unvested options. The idea is, as you work for the company and provide the value you've promised, the options become vested and are actually yours.
So why do you need to stay there to keep them? If I work at a company for a year and 25% of my options vest, why are the terms surrounding their exercise different depending on whether I choose to stay or not? I earned those options by working there for a year. Why is it fair to take them back if I decide to leave instead of stay?
Yes, I get that you're agreeing to that up front, so it's not like you should be surprised when the 90-day limit kicks in. I just wish option grant agreements weren't structured like that, but the employee has pretty much zero power to change that; these grants are pretty much take-it-or-leave-it, and the only point of negotiation seems to be in the quantity of the options. At best.