Vesting Criteria is one of the biggest levers available in an ESOP scheme to drive the right employee behaviour. It is also something that significantly impacts the level as well as pattern of charge to the income statement.

Despite this, we notice the majority of the Companies adopt the standard 4-year time-based vesting schedule for all their grants, across grades as well across various points of their growth journey.

Click on the link below to access our latest short presentation on How you can get the Vesting Criteria right?:

https://www.veritas-india.com/pdf/lets-get-the-vesting-criteria-right.pdf

The presentation is a 5-minute read and highlights various options available for vesting criteria, the advantages and challenges of the options and our recommendations on suitability of vesting criteria for various job levels.

Some of the themes you shall notice in the article are as follows:

  • 1. Choose performance criteria to avoid 'Rest and Vest' behaviour
 
  • 2. Link vesting to anticipated transactions to ensure perfect alignment
 
  • 3. Get your mathematics right by simulating charge to income statement under different options of vesting criteria

Should you have any comments or thoughts or feedback, please feel free to share write to us. We would love to hear from you!

Vichitra Malhotra, FIAI

Founder and Consulting Actuary

v.malhotra@veritas-india.com

+91-9372876627

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