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Employee Stock Options?

Posted by Cliff on from the are-these-worth-anything-in-today's-economy dept.

Evil Butters asks: "ComputerWorld has an interesting article regarding the decline of Employee Stock Options. Long gone are the days when companies would pass out stock options like toilet paper (as you were lucky if it was worth as much). Since most of us are probably in IT related fields, is anyone seeing any turn-around in compensation packages -- especially for IT folk? Everywhere I look, companies are still cutting back and finding reasons why compensation does not need to be increased (except for CEO's of course) no matter what your performance is like. But according to the article, 54% of the top S&P 250 companies are (at least) using restricted stock as performance perks, etc."

5 of 358 comments (clear)

  1. My company still hands them out like TP by Neil+Blender · · Score: 2, Funny

    And they're worth about the same.

  2. The new compensation package of the 21th century.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is not getting the job outsourced to India.

  3. Re:One DNF in hand is better than two pre-ordered by blether · · Score: 2, Funny

    For fuck's sake. One in Kate Bush is worth ten in the hand. Haven't you seen her early videos?

  4. Re:Please.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    ...applying an oversimplified model to a complex situation.
    I thought this was the definition of economics.
  5. Re:Options as performance incentives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    i know a guy who tanked a genetics firm by doing poor lab work. basically pipetted away five million by doing shoddy documentation and poor lab technique. the company was a start up biotech and went under after the loss of product.