Employee Ownership in the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For

Once again, the annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® is filled with companies with broad-based employee ownership plans. Of the 73 organizations on the list that are U.S. for-profit stock corporations, 44 have some sort of employee ownership plan (see table below). Of these, 5 are majority employee-owned, 6 have ESOPs, 13 have broad-based individual equity grant plans (option or restricted stock), and 23 have ESPPs. Some companies have multiple plans. To be on the list, created by the Great Place to Work Institute, companies must have 1,000 or more employees. The percentage of companies that have broad-based plans has been consistently in the mid-50s since we have been compiling these figures.