Employee Ownership Blog

Legislation proposed by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and the House Armed Services Committee would encourage employee ownership.

Our recent ESOP Topics Survey gathered data from 160 ESOP companies on how they’re handling the COVID-19 crisis and other issues, including questions about their involuntary turnover rates in 2019. The surveyed ESOP companies reported dramatically lower turnover than overall national averages.

Only a handful of people in Congress have actually worked for an ESOP company, but Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is one of them. In an interview with Unban Milwaukee July 3, Johnson suggested linking government assistance to employee ownership.

On June 26, the United Kingdom observed Employee Ownership Day with celebrations in hundreds of companies across the country.

Two prominent writers, Timothy Wu and Robert Reich, have articles in the New York Times about COVID-19’s effect on ownership patterns among U.S. corporations.

Timely research published by the American Economic Review conducted by Professor Robynn Cox at USC adds additional evidence of the potential for ESOPs to address income and wealth inequality.

The NCEO has been exploring ways that employee-owned companies can mutually benefit by working together around insurance. We have come to believe that an NCEO captive insurance program might directly benefit our members and allow them to have more control over and transparency into their insurance programs.

Vallejo, California-based Michael's Transportation Service, Inc., which has been employee-owned since 2009, annou

Updated on June 17, 2020: This post now includes links to the briefs.

With remote work, socially distanced production, new shift schedules, and virtual meetings, companies are beginning to head toward a new normal in their operations.

The NCEO's executive director thanks all who stood by the NCEO and supported us as we cancelled our in-person annual conference and moved to a virtual conference.

LinkedIn's Daniel Roth interviewed billionaire investor Mark Cuban and posted the online interview. In it, Cuban makes it clear that he is not talking just about a sense of ownership—he’s been quoted for decades as a supporter of employee ownership.