Employee Ownership Blog

We are now considering Seattle, Los Angeles (probably the Hollywood area), and San Francisco for the 2013 conference. Los Angeles and Seattle would offer about the same hotel prices; San Francisco would be about 15% higher. Where would you like it to be?

As it has in the past three years, the NCEO will sponsor the 4th annual Ownership Thinking Conference, to be held in the Denver area on September 16 and 17.

One of the most persistent myths about the work force is that employees don't stay with their employers the way that earlier generations did. It turns out this just isn't true.

Kenneth Klee, a special examiner for the Delaware bankruptcy court dealing with the Tribune Company's bankruptcy, has concluded that "it is highly likely that Tribune, and reasonably likely that the Guarantor Subsidiaries, were rendered insolvent and without adequate capital as a result of the cl

The financial reform legislation requires non-binding shareholder votes on executive pay; more stringent rules for the independence of compensation consultants; the expansion of existing stock exchange rules prohibiting brokers from voting uninstructed shares held in street names on some issues t

Despite, or perhaps because of, the extensive regulations surrounding equity compensation, wherever industry professionals gather, it only takes lifting your ear to hear exciting and scary stories of ill-planned transactions, poorly designed awards, unexpected tax consequences, frustrating accoun

BrightScope.com is a potentially very useful Web site that ranks defined contribution plans in most companies filing Department of Labor Form 5500 reports, although some smaller plans are not yet included. The site went online in 2009.

People working on employee ownership often ask us how many companies fit the "sweet spot" for an ESOP. The size when an ESOP is most likely to be appropriate is, broadly speaking, between 20 and 1,000 employees.

As it has in the past three years, the NCEO will sponsor the 4th annual Ownership Thinking Conference, to be held in the Denver area on September 16 and 17.

The new British government plans to privatize part or all of the country's Royal Mail Service in the fall. The plan calls for employees to own part of the company under a share ownership trust.

Thanks to the efforts of the Foundation for Enterprise Development, the Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management, Professor Joseph Blasi at Rutgers, and the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, academic interest in employee ownership is finally coming of age after a long pe

Matt Simon of myStockOptions.com has published a useful article on the five top trends in equity compensation over the last decade. The Web site, which helps people figure out how to understand and manage their equity grants, is now 10 years old.