How does Vox generally treat his employees? I get the feeling he doesn't pay attention to them as long as they're productive enough but I feel like we don't see enough of his interactions with his employees to say. Same deal with Velvette at least as far as I remember. It's only obvious that Valentino treats his employees horribly because we see how he treats Angel Dust.
Oh, we have so much more evidence of what a terrible boss Valentino is.
To answer the actual question: Based on limited evidence, Vox strikes me as the kind of person who'll actually treat his employees pretty well if they can manage to stand out. But if they're nobodies to him, they can literally die for all he cares.
Ethan is Vox's personal assistant, so it's not a good look for him if he's not aware of what's going on with the company. But after Vox makes up Angelic Security while talking to the reporters in S1, Ethan still feels safe enough to ask when VoxTek started working on that. And Vox answers calmly, even though he's irritated and has technically just been called on a lie by his own assistant (though now that he's promised the product, he actually intends to deliver, so maybe he doesn't consider it a lie).
Vox doesn't hide his anger when he confronts Katie over the news headline, but he doesn't verbally threaten or make any attempt to hurt her, either (he does burn up the paper he's holding, but the way his powers flare when he's agitated, that might have been unintentional). And he ceases all aggression once he's said his piece, so he definitely isn't the kind of boss who needs to be appeased every time someone upsets him; if they made a mistake, he expects them to fix it, but he takes responsibility for his own behavior (which is a great contrast with Valentino, who is the exact opposite).
With that said, it's hard to tell if the news crew is skittish during that scene because he does sometimes lash out, or if they're just reacting to the sudden presence of an Overlord the same way everyone does. Katie herself is a bit intimidated by his anger, but she also calls him by just his name (without adding "mister") multiple times, sexually harasses him, and is even bold enough to touch him. And she gets away with all of it, even though he's clearly annoyed and put off by her advances. So it seems like he's willing to put up with a lot from his employees as long as they're good at their job.
If they aren't, he'll give them to Valentino as target practice.
(He also kicks Tom Trench. But the joke is that everyone abuses Tom, so I'm not sure how much weight that deserves).
As far as how the other two treat their employees, all we really have from Velvette is the aftermath of Val's tantrum in S1. Which isn't a great example of anyone's normal behavior, because she's angry and her staff are terrified and jumping to obey orders. Though going by the skin tones of the body parts, Valentino killed at least five of her employees, and she only complains that he tore up her best model. So she might be similar to Vox in that she doesn't really care unless you're good at your job.
How much she cares is currently unknown, but Vox does have a picture of Melissa smiling at Velvette while she works, so it seems like she at least treats her assistant well enough.
Now Valentino, on the other hand. It's true that we don't actually see him abuse any of his own employees apart from Angel Dust, but there's a lot of evidence that it happens.
When Vox arrives to talk Val down, his first question is, "Which whore are we talking about this time?" And when Valentino asks who else he'd be talking about, Vox goes to answer before being talked over. So we know for a fact that there are other employees Valentino throws violent rage fits over, and there's no way he isn't taking that anger out on them directly when he can.
We also see a lot more abuse happening, and perhaps get a better idea of how the three of them treat their own employees, when we look at how they treat one another's.
Vox dispassionately throws one of Valentino's people to Shok.wav when she's brought to a private meeting, but as a normal thing, he doesn't seem to interfere with the other Vees' employees. He does enjoy the suffering of Angel Dust, whom he specifically hates, and after hitting him, Vox says that he's wanted to do that for a long time. But wanting to implies that he hasn't before, and Angel's reaction to Vox's sudden appearance suggests that he didn't expect to be attacked: he's scared when the door slams, but only confused and angry after realizing it's "just" Vox.
If Vox held back from personally abusing one of Val's employees whom he outright hates, he probably treats the other Vees' employees about the same way he treats his own: you're either important or he doesn't care.
We once again don't have much to work with for Velvette, but in the drawing video, she and Valentino gleefully shit on Ethan, share a laugh about him being injured, and she wants to see the surveillance footage of it happening (she thinks he got hit by a car). So all three of them are sadists who enjoy the suffering of each other's employees, but we don't know enough about Velvette to guess if that extends to her own.
Val, of course, stays horrible. He tears apart Velvette's employees in a fit of rage, is pleased by Vox's offer to let him shoot the month's lowest earners, joins Velvette in the above mockery, and when Ethan claps at the reveal of the Might of Lilith (which Val considers ugly), Val punches him. By all appearances he, like Vox, treats the other Vees' employees more or less the same way he treats his own. Which isn't a good thing.
Vox seems to be strict and results-driven, but not prone to misplaced anger or violence. Probably a decent boss as long as you provide value to the company.
Velvette feels like she'd be emotionally abusive, or at least very harsh in critiquing her employees' work, but probably not a threat to life and limb. We don't have enough information to say for sure, though.
Valentino is three HR violations in a pimp coat.
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