You don’t own the company if you can get fired & don’t control what you work on or how much you get paid. Employees can act as owners without deluding themselves that they’re the owners. Getting paid with RSUs has absolutely nothing to do with ownership or acting like an owner.
That's not our model. Our model is different than in at least two very important ways. Firstly: we are granted stock in vesting schedules and the future value of that grant may go up or down. That aligns our personal incentives with the collective ...
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it's in our interests to see the whole company, all of our colleagues, succeed, over a period of years, and not just our own little narrow part of it. This is idealistic of course, and our influence can be small, but I think it matters and promotes cohesion.
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Secondly: RSUs become shares and our 401k gets stock and that means we have votes and a say. It's not a majority, and it's not as much worker-ownership as I'd prefer to see (like a true cooperative), but it's significant. Colleagues are using those rights to submit petitions!
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renting, etc). But company messaging that we’re all owners and one big ol’ family is just BS.