Addendum to #1
The company that hired you, who offered you three weeks vacation, personal days, training and development opportunities? The one where "Work-Life Balance" is their number one priority?
BTW: if a company advertises its Work-Life Balance, internally or externally, it is because there is no work-life balance in evidence within the company. Why advertise a solution to a problem you don't have?
Does the company look the same after working 80 hour weeks with half days on weekends, emergency phone calls during family events and where training means the intern that was hired last week will write up the training priorities and budget, which will never get approved?
When exactly did it become compulsory to bring a company laptop on vacation? That's not a vacation, that's working remotely.
IT purchasing decisions will not be made on technical merits, they will be based on the personal relationships between the person with budget and the sales person. Suitability to task, ROI, TCO are post-purchase justifications. They are not germane to the purchasing decision.
