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On March 7, the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership (EFES) reported on that among 2,335 European companies listed on stock exchanges, the average stake held by employee share plans is 3.2% That is up from 2.5% in 2006.

June 28 was Employee Ownership Day in the United Kingdom, and employee-owners from hundreds of companies around the country celebrated.

A Rutgers University-led team of researchers conducted a qualitative study of the asset-building impacts of employee ownership. The team conducted 195 interviews with employee-owners at 21 ESOP companies from June 2015 through August 2018.

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.

An online survey of more than 2,000 respondents found that many consumers say they would pay a premium for products from employee-owned companies. Almost half of respondents (48%) said they would be willing to pay more, and 18% percent said they would pay more than 20% extra.

The pandemic is a critically important time to conduct research exploring how businesses and their employees have fared, and what are successful ways to reduce the negative impacts from this crisis. Employee ownership is a key factor to be explored in this context.

In its biannual research report The Total View, describing the retirement plan practices of its clients, Principal Financial Group reports that ESOP companies have higher-than-average contribution rates to defined contribution plans, with an average rate of 11.9% of compensation.

In one of the largest studies on ESOPs ever, two academics compared ESOPs to diversified plans.

In their paper "Do Non-Executive Employees Have Information?

In the book How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Last Two Recessions?, co-authors Fidan Kurtulus and Douglas Kruse explore new data about job stability at employee ownership companies during the Great Recession. Dr.