What's happening, increasingly, is that employees or top executive employees, at least, in companies are rewarded as part of their compensation with options on the value of the stock of the company they work for.

现在越发普遍的情况是,雇员,或者至少是高管,可获得他们所在公司额外的股票期权,当做薪酬的一部分,作为其优秀管理的回报

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We gave shares to almost all of our employees as part of their compensation and we hoped that would motivate them and make them feel a part of the company but we never paid them a dividend.

我们几乎将所有股票都发给了员工,作为他们的薪酬,希望能这样激励他们,让他们感到,自己是公司的一份子,但是我们从不发放股利

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