It would be hypocritical for them to ask engineers to reduce their salaries, but layoffs are different: Mozilla's decisions here are consistent with: - money b

It would be hypocritical for them to ask engineers to reduce their salaries, but layoffs are different: Mozilla's decisions here are consistent with: - money being tight - people currently earning fair salaries, however you want to define them - the executives being required Yes, you can obviously question the number of executives, but that's just the usual, somewhat tired, pointy-haired-boss cynicism. Asking them to earn less than their fair market value isn't going to work considering the competition. Which is why these executives also did not ask these former employees to make any such compromise.