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Companies actually do this behind the scenes. They list individual employees as financial assets.

• otp124 8y ago
  Hmm, I hadn't heard of this practice before, and so I went searching and found this article to be a decent summary (posting here if others are curious): https://smallbusiness.chron.com/employees-intangible-assets-44349.html https://smallbusiness.chron.com/employees-intangible-assets-...
• dsnuh 8y ago
  They certainly must have him insured... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate-owned_life_insurance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate-owned_life_insurance
  • Liron 8y ago
    No, there's no point for Google to pay a third party to insure any risk of $1B or less.
    • erikpukinskis 8y ago
      Are there any risks at all worth insuring for Google? What’s the point of insurance if you have $100B in the bank?
• lloydde 8y ago
  Even some small companies (100+ employee) carefully track attribution of their top N% of non-VP employees and tie it into executive bonus.
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