[amurthy1]

Anecdotally, I've heard companies that tried this (something like 3 months unpaid after 5 years tenure) found that most of the employees who take this end up leaving soon after coming back.

[jtsiskin]

This might also be because the employee stayed longer than they would have to get these 3 months? https://danluu.com/discontinuities/

[curryst]

Those months are unpaid, is there any practical reason why you would wait until they give you 3 unpaid months rather than just quitting at any point?

[jtsiskin]

Nope, I misread unpaid as paid.