Employee Ownership Blog

Dallan Guzinski

Join Me This Fall for the Communications Committee Crash Course

A number of companies have reported that their communications and the efforts of their employee-driven committees have actually increased and become more frequent throughout the pandemic. Committees are at the forefront of new education and employee engagement initiatives, and many committee members are doing all of this for the first time. Companies are looking for more ways to virtually connect with employees as well as other ESOP companies, and we are helping to foster these connections online once more this fall!

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NCEO

Survey Your Employees with a Little Help from Your Friends!

When employee-owned businesses openly share their best practices or approaches to employee engagement and communication, it’s not lost on those attending our conferences for the first time. Some of the best ideas or solutions attendees get from our conferences come directly from other employee-owners and ESOP companies. The networking and collaboration is a huge part of why so many employee-owned businesses thrive. 

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Dallan Guzinski

Survey Employees with a Little Help from Your Friends!

When employee-owned businesses openly share their best practices or approaches to employee engagement and communication, it’s not lost on those attending our conferences for the first time. Some of the best ideas or solutions attendees get from our conferences come directly from other employee-owners and ESOP companies. The networking and collaboration is a huge part of why so many employee-owned businesses thrive. 

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Corey Rosen

Updated List of Largest EO Companies Released

We've just released this year's EO 100, our annual list of the largest 100 companies that are owned by an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) or similar plan or, less commonly, where a majority of the employees directly own a majority of the shares. The largest company on the list is Publix Super Markets with 207,000 employees; the smallest companies on the list have 1,300 employees. The list shows that employee ownership is not a fringe economic phenomenon but rather an important part of the US economy.

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Dallan Guzinski

Join me this October for more NCEO Networking!

The NCEO’s 2021 Fall Forum broke new records once again this year with more than 700 people joining us virtually from across the country and world. Many of this year’s attendees participated in a series of roundtables where employee-owners and professionals hosted conversations and networking opportunities addressing some of the ESOP world’s most talked about topics. On October 13th we will continue the conversation around one of these topics: remote and hybrid work challenges. Read on for a few highlights from the conversations that took place at the Forum.

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Timothy Garbinsky

Calibre Wins 2021 Achievement Award at Fall Forum

As anybody who just finished attending our 2021 Fall ESOP Forum can attest, it’s a busy time of year for us all. In my case, I found myself conducting interviews, moderating discussions, and joining some of the more casual networking sessions, all to make sure members and attendees truly got the most out of our event. And this doesn’t even include the sessions I tried to attend for my own edification, since I, like all of us, still have a lot to learn.

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Corey Rosen

Defense Authorization Act Provision Makes 100% ESOPs Eligible for Small Business Set-Asides

A potentially major improvement in rules for ESOP defense contractors was included in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, S 2042). An amendment from Sen. Jean Shaheen (D-NH) would provide that the Department of Defense should create a pilot program that would allow companies that are or become 100% ESOP-owned to receive noncompete follow-on contracts for the work, even if they no longer meet applicable small business or other set-aside requirements. The award would be contingent on a finding that the contractor’s performance was satisfactory or better. The program would run for three years, and the Government Accountability Office would be required to provide an assessment of it with two years of the program’s sunset.

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