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Newsletters, White Papers and Suggested Reading

Newsletter:  Our Winter 2009 newsletter is out and available for download on our website here.   This quarter we've dedicated the newsletter primarily to stock option repricings, a topic that has come charging back into the compensation world after a near decade hiatus.

White Papers:  We've also recently published a white paper, "The Trouble With Options", that discusses the fundamental disconnect stock options create between executive behavior and shareholder value creation.  World@Work subscribers can read an abstract on the World@Work website here.  Alternatively, the full paper is available here on our website.

Suggested Reading:

James Surowiecki wrote an interesting article for the New Yorker that discusses, among other things, 'sticky wages', 'talent hoarding', and the productivity of the labor force.

Meanwhile, while the average hourly wage of employees increased by about 3% last year, Merrill Lynch, a company that shed nearly 80% of its shareholder's value, managed to find a way to pay $209 million to ten of its highest paid employees.  You can find details in the Wall Street Journal (subscription) or the New York Times.

And finally, the New York Times has an interactive chart that outlines the gaps that continue to exist between women and men in the same job across a number of occupations.