its not insider trading to offer options/shares to employees at discounted rates, its pretty much how silicon valley, biotech, wall street, etc all run. anyone who thinks thats insider trading seems kinda too retarded to making predictions. employees enter into restricted trading windows where they aren't allowed to trade shares before/right after earnings calls, and management has to file forms before big sales so govt can track if they are trading on insider info (after the fact).
that is hilarious though ubisoft employees actually thought their stock would go up and bought into it, most of the time you get super discounted shares but you still have to pay in, like if the stock is worth $10 you may get options to buy at $1 so if you were given a grant of 25k shares (usually vest over 4 years) you'd have to pay $25k to get those shares, and then could immediately sell at $250,000 ($10/share). of course it can easily drop below $1 a share making your options worthless, which is what usually happens with shitty tech companies.
Its why companies like Intel are having a hard time with retention, most options/bonuses for employees the last few years are completely under water but usually you don't actually hold, you exercise and sell immediately and always get a profit, you have to have a special brand of retard to think holding is a good idea.
