In my experience finance bonuses are much less guaranteed than in tech. You don’t calculate your bonus as part of your compensation until it happens, because it

In my experience finance bonuses are much less guaranteed than in tech. You don’t calculate your bonus as part of your compensation until it happens, because it’s so performance based that “no bonus” has a reasonable chance of happening. So garden leave amounts to a bad performance year without having to work, which is a pretty reasonable trade off. At least it always was for me.