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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Senior executives that sit "on high" and do what is best for theirselves first. Let's face facts, these guys are making incredible money merely on their base salaries. Can you imagine the boost to employee morale, as well as positive PR, if these guys were to forgo their bonuses?
Myself, I would have a very hard time accepting a bonus if my company was losing money, accepting government money, and laying off employees. |
I work for a company whose executives said just that - they would not be taking any bonuses this year. They also said that nobody in the company would be receiving bonuses or merit increases due to the economy. Then part of our organization sat in with an employee update for one of the more autonomous sections of the company headed by a VP (the previous statements were made by the CEO himself) that they, since they were actually profitable would be getting bonuses.
The Executive levels not taking bonuses did not do much for my moral, it didn't lower it basically. It did impress some confidence in their convictions and ethics (our company pushes ethics very hard), so I guess maybe it did positively impact my opinion of them. The other announcement that the other organization would however be getting theirs blew all of that out of the water.