Granting stock options is a valuable compensation tool for recruiting and retaining employees—or at least that's the idea many telecom executives have embraced lately. Stock options let employees purchase shares at a given price for a specified period of time. In the go-go stage of Internet startups, they were all the rage, and the stories of administrative assistants becoming millionaires from option windfalls stoked employees' lust for equity participation.
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