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The annual list of the UK's best places to work, compiled by Glassdoor using worker feedback, put two companies with substantial employee ownership at the top of the list. Number one is Google, renown for its culture and for broadly offering equity compensation to its workforce.

In a joint project with the Employee Ownership Foundation, the NCEO found that employee ownership averts a substantial amount of unemployment and saved the federal government over $23 billion in 2010.

An article in the current issue of Economic and Industrial Democracy (vol. 32, no. 3) draws on data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine whether employee ownership companies invest more in skills training for their employees.

When people work in an employee ownership company with a strong culture, is there a tendency for their values to converge? Anecdotally, the answer would appear to be "yes," given the intense nature of the work environment and the shared goals toward which people work.

ESOP companies generally have a hard time qualifying for various minority and other special set-aside programs if the plan owns more than 49% of the shares.

Change.org (not to be confused with the official Obama site of change.gov) is a nonprofit that is gathering ideas on policy to present to the new administration. Other prominent nonprofits will join in the effort.

The June 11 article Huawei's Culture is the Key to Its Success in the Harvard Business Review traces much of the telecommunication firm Huawei's culture to its employee ownership.

Employee ownership will be a central theme of a free conference on business and poverty at Oxford University on July 25th. Topics to be covered include: employee ownership, mutuals, impact investing, crowdsourcing, responsible leadership and corporate social responsibility.

Today is the start of the America's Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) annual conference, where employee ownership will be discussed not once, not twice, but thrice over the course of the event.

LD 1338, "An Act To Create and Sustain Jobs through Development of Cooperatives and Employee-owned Businesses," has been introduced in the Maine legislature.