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Once again, a majority (56%) of the 76 companies that have stock on the Great Place to Work Institute's Best 100 Companies to Work For" list have one or more broad-based employee ownership programs. Last year, the percentage of companies was exactly the same.

KPMG surveyed 350 public and private companies in India and found that nearly two-thirds offer stock options to employees.

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Malaysia, one of the world's fastest-growing economies, is now exploring employee ownership. Workers at its state-owned petroleum firm are being given the first shot at buying shares in the company, which is about to be privatized.

In late August, a conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur to discuss employee ownership as a business and privatization strategy in Malaysia. Malaysia now joins Jamaica, Argentina, China, and Zimbabwe among non-Western counties looking at this option.

Malaysia, one of the Southeast Asia's fastest-growing economies, will hold a conference on employee ownership in late August. The conference will explore the growing use of employee ownership in the country, occurring primarily through share purchase programs.

In a case that could have implications for efforts to set up S ESOP Corporation management companies, a U.S.

In a few Canadian provinces, employees are able to get both provincial and federal tax credits for buying employer stock. They can also get credits for investing in labor venture capital funds that invest in local companies.

Roughly half of the companies on the NCEO's list of 730 majority ESOP-owned closely held companies are in manufacturing.

A frequently repeated and never-documented claim by many compensation professionals is that broad-based equity plans don't work.