C suite members raking in high salaries is the tiniest most insignificant issue when it comes to a large orgs finances. In most large orgs if C sites were paid $0 the average employee wouldn't even notice the difference.
Mozilla is very engineering-heavy. While I don't know other people's salaries, I do know that the fully loaded cost of a developer almost anywhere is much higher than $100k/yr.
The way I see it, the employees that had almost no control over Mozilla's direction over the last years are suffering the consequences.
Like this stance is crazy if you apply it to anyone but the CEO. Can you imagine if you got punished for writing bad code or not making a project deadline by having your salary cut?
Regardless of whether you think she's doing a good job as the CEO, she's still doing her job and deserves to be paid. Your just asking for CEOs to be company whipping boys.
But I do get punished as part of the regular Performance Review, if I don't do my job right. Luckily, I am very good at my job.
In 2018 she received almost $2.5 million comp from Mozilla. Assuming that her comp has not decreased since then, that would be 25 FTEs (according to your numbers) that she could have chosen not to fire at no other cost than her compensation. Do with that what you will.
> I agree that it would have been an insignificant number of the 250 people fired, but it would have made a difference in the life of the employees not fired and it would have given meaning to her words.
Are you saying it would not have been worth it?
Yes the whole situation sucks, layoffs are never fun. I'm sure this decision was genuinely hard for her to make and she doesn't need to self-flagellate to prove to anyone that she cared.
Silly or not, it would have shown that Mitchell Baker is a leader. This way it shows that she is not.
Guess what happens to organizations without a leader.
You should never give a CEO a pay cut for doing their job and making the hard decisions to help keep the company in the black.
Seeing up close and personal several CEOs that laid off people, I saw very little evidence of that. Some even happily talked about vacations and buying yachts, when not in employee company.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/08/29/thank-you-chris/
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/04/08/mitchell-baker-name...
> When the Mozilla Corporation was launched as a taxable subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation on August 3, 2005, Baker was named the CEO of the new entity. In addition, she joined the Mozilla Corporation's Board of Directors, though she also kept her seat on the Mozilla Foundation's board, as well as her role as Chairperson.
In 2014, she wrote this piece[0] (while she was not CEO, but Chair), justifying putting ads in Firefox.
[0] - https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2014/02/13/content-ads-cauti...
It appears that she has been setting the direction at Mozilla for a really long time, CEO or not.