Employee Ownership Blog

This October, the NCEO is launching its newest networking opportunity for ESOP companies to not only administer Ownership Culture Surveys to employee-owners but also to do so while collaborating and networking with fellow employee-owned companies in the process.

Businesses across the country are struggling to find, hire, and retain the employees they need, so this finding from the General Social Survey (reported on in our blog) should be w

Employee ownership in Australia is currently limited primarily to employee stock purchase plans and employee equity grant programs such as stock options. A new legislative committee report recommends that the use of employee ownership trusts be investigated.

In its new election platform, the Conservative Party in Canada joins the ruling Liberal Party in pushing for major changes in Canadian law to create an employee ownership structure similar to ESOPs in the U.S. and employee ownership trusts in the UK.

The survey report presents data on board composition, director compensation, trustee types, trustee compensation, and other governance topics, drawing on responses from 302 ESOP company respondents. Data is broken out by industry, percent ESOP, corporate type, number of employees, age of plan, and revenue.

One of the perks of my job is that I get to talk a lot with people from employee-owned companies, and I have noticed two themes in my conversations with CEOs around the country in recent weeks: tolerance for uncertainty has almost disappeared, and disruptive times are fertile grounds for investments in training and leadership development. The NCEO is hosting an innovative CEO networking roundtable.

Fifteen of the 19 winners in the medium- and large-company categories of B Lab’s Best For the World awards for workers are employee-owned (and almost all are NCEO members).

It's no secret that workplace attitudes are changing. The first thing to acknowledge is that this is not an issue with a quick fix. For many companies, this will require a real change in their workplace attitudes or in how they treat employees. Our resources will help you.

As you've probably heard by now, our 2021 Fall ESOP Forum will now be exclusively an online event. While this news is disappointing to all of us who were eager to reunite with the ESOP community in person, we’re very excited for the Forum’s virtual shift and all the ways we’ll connect in our online format.

An excellent article in the Wall Street Journal on August 5 discussed how research consistently shows that people of color are much less likely to accumulate equity in their companies than other workers.

The Certified Equity Professional Institute at Santa Clara University is accepting applications for the 2021 Marilyn Perkins J. Classen Memorial Scholarships.

Since the Main Street Employee Ownership Act (MSEOA) was signed into law in August 2018, the NCEO and others in the field have questioned whether its implementation matched Congress's intent to promote employee ownership. A House appropriation bill committee report now makes clear that the SBA has a mandate to implement the MSEOA's directives.