Hi Germiston,

agreed. Better to stay realistic. However, the link that I had provided in the previous thread, clearly shows that this >700k share are transactions of the last 3 month only. 
So, even if it is stock options and part of the salary, they would need a "small bit of change" to get those options converted, which would still be absolutely significant. It's a big chunk of money though. 

And if these are options, we should see that soon in the financials, and it would mean a great amount of cash into POET's coffers. It would also mean that there is room again in the 20% option pool for the AGM.

Anyway, the number alone >7 million shares pre-split would be significant enough, either way. >10% of the float is huge IMO.

How does it work on taxation, if the SP is close to the exercise price, isn't that better in terms of tax for the employees? (if those are exercised options)

Here the link again, the table and the legend shows that those are transactions of the last 3 months only. 

https://www.ldmicro.com/profile/poet/share-info