Singtel CEO’s Pay Cut 17% to $5.3 Million After Network Outages
THE SO WHAT
Docking the CEO 17% over outages ties executive comp directly to infra resilience—boards are putting uptime and incident response on the same level as growth. If you run critical services, assume your own incentives will move this way and preempt it with clear reliability KPIs and incident playbooks.
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