Public companies often compensate employees in part by giving them stock options. This form of employee compensation conserves cash, improves retention and aligns employees’ interests with the ...

Employers are thinking about long-term strategies for attracting and retaining workers without dipping into their cash flow, and they’re reaching back into their late 1990s bag of compensation tricks.

Microsoft Corp. 's surprising announcement over the summer that it would cease giving stock options to its employees has high-tech executives scratching their heads, wondering whether and how to ...

Equity grants — a compensation option that gives employees company stock — are increasing in popularity around the globe, according to a report published last week. That means HR professionals should ...

A compensation strategy differs from a compensation budget in that it aims to improve recruiting and retention of employees, rather than simply minimizing expenses. Creating a compensation strategy ...

Stock compensation is rocket fuel for employees of SpaceX. Its IPO will make many of them millionaires. Here's what I learned about their stock comp in the IPO filing.

Norwalk, Conn. - The Financial Accounting Standards Board goes into its second semester with a heavy agenda of issues that are as tough as they are pressing. Against predictable resistance from the ...

It was another banner year for the Washington area's highest-paid executives. The median total compensation for the 100 highest-paid executives at local public companies rose 21.2 percent in 2005, to ...