When regular grants of restricted stock units (RSUs) are part of your compensation, this can be a helpful way to reframe the decision around whether to sell or hold your vested shares. If you hold double-trigger RSUs , your RSUs won’t fully vest until a time-based condition and some kind of secondary condition are met. The what-if-it-were-a-cash-bonus question is one way to start thinking through what to do with your vested RSUs. “Worst-case scenario, the company tanks, you lose your job, you lose your unvested stock, and now your vested stock is worth zero.” Employees at successful companies can be persuaded that their company stock “only goes up,” Bashall says.