Why not? Let's not act like the average CEO isn't also an actively hostile member of the company toward its workforce. Why should people be forced to work under such hostile regimes? People should be empowered to vote for their leaders where they work. Boards have this authority already, there's zero reason why workers shouldn't be granted the same priviledge.
It won't make the companies worse run, why would workers want to destroy their means to live? CEOs do this with no skin in the game, the workers should take that skin as they will always be better stewards than the single tyrant.
No one is forcing people, they can switch jobs, hence why we vote for politicians, because we cannot switch countries (as easily) but we do not vote for CEOs. Well, by working at a certain company, that is automatically a vote that one supports that company and wants to continue working there.
Where is your evidence that companies won't be worse run? Workers could just vote to give themselves massive raises and hemorrhage the company, ironically like how some private equity firms operate but en masse. No one would start companies in this sort of scenario thereby causing the economy to fall, especially in comparison to companies that don't have this sort of voting system for companies.
My evidence is the fact that companies layoff people in general due to the ineptitude of their executives. My evidence is that people do not like it when others have dominion over them.
The ability to deny someone healthcare, the ability to eat, how you dress yourself, who you can speak to, and even if you can subsist in our society (notice I didn't say thrive); these are things no human should have over another.
Companies have the ability to destroy lives and workers have ZERO recourse.
My solution is simple, workers should be able to vote for their bosses. If these executives are as good as you say then they should win the election easily. I mean after all boards vote on who becomes an executive, why shouldn't workers be allowed this right as well? Boards + executives decide company strategy, why can't workers be allowed to do this too? Why can't their be consensus building where we actually give workers the freedom to dictate their own success? Boards + executives vote on their salaries too (hint, they never go down), workers should have this right too.
I'm sorry but the more I think about it, the more farcical it all seems. Workplace democracy should the next pursuit of human rights as democratizing the economy can only lead to more human flourishing as democratic governments have provided thus far.
If it's good enough for the state, it's good enough for the F500.
If you want socialism, you can make your own co-op right now. In fact, I too was in a software engineering co-op where we all made decisions together and chose an external facing CEO. It works, but only at a small scale. There's a reason co-ops are not the dominant force in the market, if socialism really worked they would be but turns out capitalist corporate structures simply perform better.
And also, the way you dress yourself or have healthcare? Do you not think co-ops like REI don't have a work uniform or give their workers healthcare? Sorry but your takes sound extremely naive, where have you worked before? As I said I have literally worked in a software co-op and it's not all it's cracked up to be based on how you're describing them.
It won't make the companies worse run, why would workers want to destroy their means to live? CEOs do this with no skin in the game, the workers should take that skin as they will always be better stewards than the single tyrant.