Employee Ownership Blog

The free Coursera course "Our Share: Employee Ownership as a Wealth Sharing Tool," launched by The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, begins on January 30.

Our 2023 ESOP Repurchase Obligation Survey is now collecting responses from ESOP companies. The survey is open through March 15.

Across the U.S. there is a burgeoning and vibrant network of state centers for employee ownership that are working to get the word out about ESOPs, worker cooperatives, employee ownership trusts (EOTs), and other forms of broad-based ownership for businesses.

State legislation on employee ownership is gaining momentum, with bills passed in Colorado during 2021 and in Massachusetts and California during 2022.

The 2023 peer networking groups will start meeting soon!

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, an omnibus spending bill with many parts, contains major wins for employee ownership as part of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, including the passage of the WORK Act.

Lots of us love Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s dream-tormented epiphany about what really matters in life has resonated deeply with people of all ages ever since it was published.

The Mondragon Corporation of Spain’s Basque region, an integrated network of more than 90 employee-owned companies plus many worker cooperatives, is the best-known example of worker cooperative

Ownership: Reinventing Capitalism, Companies, and Who Owns What won the 2023 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize for the best book of the year on shared capitalism.

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ESOP transactions require specific knowledge from both advisors and companies, each with unique responsibilities that compel them to act according to their duty and at the right moment.

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced a partnership to create more employee-owned businesses.