In all honesty, considering how increasingly screwed we get with every new decision made by Qualcomm lately, this sounds like a perfect idea.
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/6/17086720/poll-corporate-board-democracy-worker-council-codetermination-union-labor
@1mub A non-sequiter is all that nonsense you posted.
"Employee run company" has nothing to do with having an employee on the board. Your yadda yadda yadda corporate s---ing sycophantic mewling has nothing to do with anything I posted. Zero.
@xxj. Non-sequitur. Just because QC is poorly run does not follow that it is because we don't have a direct seat on the board. Also just because you say it, does not make it so. I'm sorry. Facts matter. Unless you are a Bernie supporter to whom economic realities do not matter in your thinking. Let's make everything free--free healthcare, free college, free housing, free hug... Let's make everyone to have a job no matter if the business has no prospect of making money. Why make a minimum wage of $15, when you can, by law, make it a minimum wage of $100/hour. Why stop at $100/HR, let's make it $200/hour. Let's use our board seat to match employee 401k contribution to 100,000%. Let's use our board seat to ensure there will never be layoff again, ever. Then no employee will ever be poor. Then all problems are solved and we will finally live in utopia. Dream on, buddy.
@bzv Sure, because QC has been so well managed without employee input.
Regardless, we're not taking about employee-owned companies we're talking about having employee voice on the board. Any employee who objects to having a say in the running of the company they work for is fundamentally an economic illiterate, not to say a fool.
@xnh Perhaps Republicans are 31% more educated in economics than Democrats to fall for such lousy idea. Employee-owned companies have historically been very poorly run. Very inefficient, can't layoff deadwood, over-paying market rate for labor, can't make tough decisions...the list goes on. Have you flown United Airlines lately? It is employee-owned. But it is so poorly run that their CEO defended their employees for dragging paying customer off their plane by force, and suffocating customer's pet in the overhead compartment. Employee-owned is a really lousy idea. Any step towards that is a step in the wrong direction.
I love how the chart shows that 40% of Republicans don't want to have a voice on the board - presuming most work for corporations it is literally saying "I don't want any stake in my own future, let someone else decide for me". What a bunch of followers and cowards.
But to answer the question most board members (at QC or anywhere else) would rather raze their companies to the ground and willingly live for the rest of their lives in piles of their own feces rather than let employees have a say, or even an opinion, about running a company.