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by aetch 1369 days ago
The benefits you described are the same as a vacation.
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Except the employee is paid for travel, transportation, food, and lodging.

A while back when I was working at a company that had significant spending in GCP, we'd get free tickets to Next. My director basically said that there wasn't any expectation for the employees he was sending to learn or network, it was basically a semi-vacation. Kind of makes sense honestly.