After thinking it over, I don't really have a problem with a trial period. All employment agreements I've seen allow for a 3 month trial period already. The o

After thinking it over, I don't really have a problem with a trial period. All employment agreements I've seen allow for a 3 month trial period already. The only stipulation I'd add is that salary and benefits already be finalized. Someone taking a week away from their current job, or quitting it outright, has weakened their negotiation position so the paper work had better be done before the trial week starts. Also I don't think too many companies would go down thsi trial road.... By definition if you are doing a 1 week trial period then you are excluding the top 5-10% of people from your potential set of hires as they'd never put up with this, but the companies that do this like Weebly don't need to hire the top 5-10% of hackers. Weebly is probably content with hiring in the top 40% and therefore the system works for them.