CEOs pay is tied to the stock price. They will do whatever it takes to boost the stock price, until they are out with a golden parachute. From their perspective, the business is all about boosting the stock price. It doesn't matter if the boost comes from innovation, or from polluting the planet, or from unscrupulous addictive practices, or from culling the employees.
Employees are merely, an often undesired, side-effect in the business of boosting stock prices.
Employees are merely, an often undesired, side-effect in the business of boosting stock prices.