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Boss Rewards Employees With Half A Million Dollar Bonus

Graham Walker, the outgoing CEO of Louisiana based Fibrebond, made sure that 15 percent of his company’s 1.7 billion dollar sale to Eaton would go to his 540 full time employees, giving them bonuses worth 240 million dollars. Each worker will receive an average of 443,000 dollars paid over the next five years if they stay with the company, with some long timers receiving even more based on their years of service. Walker, whose father founded the electrical equipment manufacturer in 1982, wanted to reward his workers including those who stuck with the company during devastating setbacks like a factory fire in 1998 and the dot com crash that reduced their workforce from 900 to 320 employees. During those difficult months after the fire, the Walker family still paid their employees’ salaries even while the business couldn’t operate, and Graham later rehired some of the workers who had been laid off during the struggles.

The company’s fortunes turned around dramatically when Walker invested 150 million dollars in 2020 to build infrastructure for data centers, a move that proved incredibly successful during the AI boom and grew sales by 400 percent over five years. Some employees initially thought the bonus announcement was a prank and asked what the catch was, while others were so emotional they cried and hugged as Walker shared details of his commitment that everyone would win together. Workers are using the money to pay off debt and college tuition, finance retirement funds, and go on vacations, with longtime employee Lesia Key saying she was going paycheck to paycheck before but now she can finally live. Walker, who exits the company at the end of December, told reporters he hopes to be 80 years old someday and still getting emails about how the bonuses impacted someone’s life.

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