The Google Bonus Leak- Transparency, Transparency, Transparency
Monday, April 25th, 2011This month Google’s new CEO, Larry Page, changed the bonus structure to focus on the success of their social strategy. It was announced in an annual memo entitled “2011 Bonus Multiplier.” One of the employees leaked an image of the memo to Business Insider. Soon after, everyone from media giants to personal bloggers jumped to condemn Page’s move with Larry Page’s First Blunder: Spam Grandma For Cash, Dear Google: You Can’t Threaten People Into Being Social, so on and so on. What had started as a simple internal memo on compensation was elevated to the news of the day because of one employee’s misconduct.

