Profit motive comes first for company bosses

Sixty-six per cent of FTSE 100 companies give no weighting to staff matters when structuring either annual bonus schemes or long-term incentive plans
Sixty-six per cent of FTSE 100 companies give no weighting to staff matters when structuring either annual bonus schemes or long-term incentive plans
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The bosses of Britain’s biggest companies have 41 times more incentive to hit financial targets than to attain goals linked to the health, advancement and morale of their employees, according to a report.

Executive bonuses are skewed to financial targets with no, or very little, weighting given to the wellbeing, training and engagement of staff, according to the joint study by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the High Pay Centre.

Sixty-six per cent of FTSE 100 companies give no weighting to staff matters when structuring either annual bonus schemes or long-term incentive plans, they say. Even where personnel matters are included, they tend to be given little weighting. Over the entire FTSE 100, employee metrics accounted for 2 per cent of bonus