Yeah, they could just vest employer contributions immediately. That's pretty rare in my experience but not w/o precedent. One other option I've seen is increme

Yeah, they could just vest employer contributions immediately. That's pretty rare in my experience but not w/o precedent. One other option I've seen is incremental vesting of 20% year over year. You only have to vest in three years if you do it all at once; otherwise you can take up to five years.