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Employee ownership offers a meaningful stake and a say for all employees. Read our simple guide.
The definition for employee ownership is taken from the Nutall Review 2012 - and ‘offers a meaningful stake and a say for all employees’:
There are three different types of employee ownership:
Direct - using one or more tax advantaged share plans, employees become registered individual shareholders of a majority of the shares in their company.
Indirect - held in trust on behalf of employees – currently the fastest growing option for succession is via an EOT.
Hybrid - combination of both – often seen when a family business likes to retain some family shares alongside employee ownership.
The top 5 reasons why businesses choose employee ownership: