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<blockquote data-quote="Gorgon Zee" data-source="post: 8361813" data-attributes="member: 75787">Hmm, I think you may have been confused about the wording. The text of the announcement I read states:<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/GAW-GB" target="_blank">Games Workshop</a>, which sells role-playing miniatures and games such as Warhammer, said in its annual results on Tuesday that it was splitting a £10.6 million discretionary bonus among its 2,600 employees, equal to a £4,000 payment each. The gaming retailer also said it had upped its profit share payment to a total of £2.6 million in 2021, or £1,000 per employee, from £2.4 million in 2020. So there are actually two bonuses; a 4K &quot;discretionary bonus&quot; and a 1K &quot;profit sharing&quot;. Other news sources have reported it and combined the two, so perhaps that was the source of the confusion? Anyway, unless the discretionary bonus was also paid out in shares, which would be a pretty weird way of doing things, it looks like you GW workers will get 4K as a cash bonus, and 1K as shares, presumably with the usual 3 year vesting limit. I admit though I don't actually know that GW pays discretionary bonuses in cash, so if that also is actually in shares, it would surprise me, but just cite the source in any correction, thanks! Also of interest, it's not a new bonus of 5k -- the usual profit-sharing seems to have been just a bit shy of 1K&nbsp; anyway, so this is really a 4K bonus each. Still very nice though, and kudos to GW for it!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gorgon Zee, post: 8361813, member: 75787"] Hmm, I think you may have been confused about the wording. The text of the announcement I read states: [URL='https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/GAW-GB'][I]Games Workshop[/I][/URL][I], which sells role-playing miniatures and games such as Warhammer, said in its annual results on Tuesday that it was splitting a £10.6 million discretionary bonus among its 2,600 employees, equal to a £4,000 payment each. The gaming retailer also said it had upped its profit share payment to a total of £2.6 million in 2021, or £1,000 per employee, from £2.4 million in 2020. [/I] So there are actually two bonuses; a 4K "discretionary bonus" and a 1K "profit sharing". Other news sources have reported it and combined the two, so perhaps that was the source of the confusion? Anyway, unless the discretionary bonus was also paid out in shares, which would be a pretty weird way of doing things, it looks like you GW workers will get 4K as a cash bonus, and 1K as shares, presumably with the usual 3 year vesting limit. I admit though I don't actually know that GW pays discretionary bonuses in cash, so if that also is actually in shares, it would surprise me, but just cite the source in any correction, thanks! Also of interest, it's not a [I]new[/I] bonus of 5k -- the usual profit-sharing seems to have been just a bit shy of 1K anyway, so this is really a 4K bonus each. Still very nice though, and kudos to GW for it! [/QUOTE]

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