Email: [email protected] Ian McClelland managing director Ian's previous position was advising FremantleMedia Australia's regional CEOs with their digital strategy and business development.
The latest protest is one of a series aimed at fueling a national debate on income inequality and comes after a report from the Demos thinktank showed that fast-food companies had the largest gap between the pay of CEOs and workers of any industry.
Or "passionate", that favourite word of corporate speechwriters who have been told to make their robotic CEOs look interesting.
(Forty percent of senators, a quarter of the House, half of Fortune 500 CEOs, and half of US presidents are alumni of Greek societies).
But it's not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish".
Bill Gates or JK Rowling have earned more than CEOs or authors in the past, while incomes in the middle class or lower middle classes are often stagnating below what previous generations could expect.
In an interview this week on the US public radio show Marketplace, he said: "I saw a recent survey in the US that 75% of the CEOs were willing to postpone the right decisions if it would affect their quarterly reporting, and that cannot be healthy for the long-term of the business.
From small businesses to CEOs to regular Americans, optimism is increasing for jobs growth in 2015.
The only bright spot is that 40% of CEOs expect their companies will increase employment in the next six months, and not all the jobs will be part-time or disposable.
