EO+WD Weekend Newsletter, Vol. 20

Happy August! Winter is coming.

Happy Friday!

Here’s some scannable weekend content for you.

What We’ve Been Writing 

• Dr. Hand ponders a question posed to him during his visit to Oxford: Is a CEO truly necessary?

• Megan covers a bill brought forward by two U.S. Senators that aims to streamline the ESOP process for S- Corporations 

• Dr. Hand shares a resource on best practices in UK employee ownership trusts he recently discovered

• Reid details some of the benefits for employees operating in a shared ownership structure

What We’ve Been Reading 

• New research has shown S-corporations that offer an ESOP enjoy higher employee retention rates than their competitors 

• Business services firm VGM celebrated 15 years of being employee owned this week 

• Check out this video on the successful exit and employee ownership transition of former CodeWeavers owner Jeremy White 

What’s Next 

• Here’s a quick article about the upcoming Ownership Economy Summit in New York in October 

In Case You Missed It 

• We covered some big moves made by the Department of Labor on the topic of employee ownership. Check out Reid and Megan’s articles here and here. 

The Employee Ownership + Workplace Democracy Research Cluster (EO+WD) is a joint project of University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) professor Mark Hand and students at Southern Methodist University (SMU).