This strikes me as beyond slimy. Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired - Slashdot
Disclosure: I don't have stock of any kind in my current gig. I have had in the past.
How's this for an analogy:
Evil Game Company: We decided to lower your salary; last year's salary to be specific. Write us a check for $50000.
Employee: No, I don't agree to that.
Evil Game Company: You are fired.
Seem about the same to me. Of course I understand that in legal terms there is a difference. In the real scenario, the $50000 grand is not vested, which means that its value is destroyed when the employee is fired.
Aside from the obvious nuclear bomb this has dropped on Zynga's employee attraction potential, I think this may be damaging to Z in another way. They may lose any current employees with a backbone.
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