About half a dozen other companies , including Aetna and Charles Schwab , have either eliminated or significantly cut back on options for their rank and file in the last year , according to the National Center for Employee Ownership , an independent research group in Oakland , Calif. '' More and more companies today are no longer offering stock options to all employees , '' Ann Moore , the chief executive of Time Inc. , and Norman Pearlstine , the editor in chief , said in a memo to employees of the Time unit .