With our recent spurt of layoffs, this HR Executive headline naturally caught my eye this week: Are executive pay cuts the bold move your organization needs? What followed was, at the very least, a missed opportunity for transparency and authenticity in sharing the pain of what laid off employees are feeling and would consider a ‘bold’ response. And at its worst, an intentional attempt to say something edgy that could only appeal to board-level leaders long insulated from their employees by averaging 1000 times their salary.
To make her point that it can be done, the author, Jen Colletta, stated early, “Among the high-profile execs who will be taking ...