"[O]nly 24% of [survey participants] have actually exercised employee stock options or sold shares acquired from equity comp. Among the rest, 34% admit to being worried about selling in adverse market conditions, and another 34% say they fear the tax consequences of making an uninformed or bad decision. These findings are all the more remarkable because over a third of the participants (36%) actually report that stock comp was one of the reasons why they took their current job to begin with."  MORE >>