The Golden Parachute of Convenience Automattic's decision to grant its interim CEO and chief legal officer generous severance packages during a brief leadership crisis raises more questions than it answers.
These perks, worth a combined $8.
15 million, would have provided 12 months of base salary, accelerated equity vesting, and a year of health coverage, contingent on the executives signing a broad release of claims and agreeing to confidentiality restrictions.