“Jeff decided to ask the Compensation Committee to forgo his annual equity grant, and to instead put those shares back in the pool for LinkedIn employees.”
Apparently, we may be seeing something here.
After Twitter’s stock plummeted in October, CEO Jack Dorsey announced that he would give a third of his stock award —worth about $200 million — to employees. Plum Creek Timber Co. CEO Rick Holley also gave back his $2 million bonus in 2014. I also wrote a while back about a college president who would donate his yearly bonus to the colleges scholarship fund.
