The list of those suing the company grew to include Enron’s own employees, who had seen much of their retirement-plan savings disappear. They claimed Enron’s top executives had misled them about the riskiness of Enron shares and locked them into their plummeting holdings for a month while the company changed plan administrators. Between the company’s savings and stock-ownership plans—60 percent of the total assets in both consisted of Enron stock— 20,000 Enron employees lost about $2 billion in 2001.
