<p>i work for one of the largest companies in the world, it doesn’t get any larger or more blue-chip than the one i work at. I wouldn’t say record earnings/profit should equate to record bonus/raise. There’s a lot of consolidation in many industries, and this is one of the best times to make those acquisitions so that once the market recovers, u can still churn out even better earnings. The employees at my company do complain about lack of bonus/raise even though we post record earnings every quarter. But even as an employee I can say people will always expect higher raise/bonus, this is true at any company. but u can count on the most important people in the company getting significant bonus/raise because their work brings in the dough. </p>
<p>perhaps what sakky says should be true about profit sharing in the financial service industries where human capital cost is the greatest and the wealth should be spread around. and i believe they do get compensated well because of that. </p>
<p>sakky, i think u are making a lot of claims based on the assumption that people can move around and onto greener pastures. fact is majority of people cannot. this is especially true once u get to your 40s, 50s. it’s not easy to just get up and goto a different company. if u can’t move around, all of this talk becomes moot because they have no say in the matter, it’s keep the job or unemployment.</p>