[formercoder]

I’m a Googler who doesn’t do anything remotely close to setting capital return policy. Just remember Alphabet has been buying back 10s of billions for a while. Dividends are just a different capital return mechanism.

[jnwatson]

Importantly, dividends devalue issued unvested RSUs.

[afc]

I though this was the case, but Googlers will receive Dividend Equivalent Units on unvested GSUs on each dividend payment date.

[kidintech]

Could you please expand on this? If a person got issued RSUs but they have not vested yet, wouldn't they be happy that the RSUs are going to be worth more by the time they get vested?