Lessons from an employee ownership trust: a HR case study

Audio-visual company Mediascape celebrated five years this May as an employee ownership trust (EOT) and reflected on the benefits it has to employee engagement, recruitment and retention.

Alternative ways to deal with the cost of living crisis

Salary increases are often an excellent way for businesses to support their employees through a cost of living crisis. The latest ONS figures show that many employers have already awarded salary...

Employee ownership hits record high

A record number of employee owned businesses have been created in the last twelve months.

Hot topic: employee ownership, part two

COVID-19 changed business priorities for many, but some saw it as an opportunity to change direction. Interest in employee ownership hit record highs during the pandemic, with 250 new employee-owned...

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John Lewis cuts bonus to lowest level in decades

John Lewis and Waitrose staff will receive a bonus of just 2% in 2020, which is their lowest payout in 67 years

Job quality rated higher at co-operatives

Co-operatives and employee-owned businesses may be more resilient in times of crisis because they have higher job quality and better management practices, according to research

Why we launched an employee share scheme

Our colleagues are our business and without them we are nothing. We want them not only to feel ownership of Weir but to have ownership

Wealth distribution: Universal basic income

We’ve explored three key models for redistributing income, and their implications for the psychology of work and HR

Hot topic: Worker share schemes, part two

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell recently set out plans that would oblige large firms to offer worker share schemes

Hot topic: Worker share schemes

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell recently set out plans that would oblige large firms to offer worker share schemes

The tax on share options is unfair

More needs to be done to tackle two fundamental issues that overshadow share options' advantages

Lessons on employee ownership

Workers on boards may no longer be government policy, but there are lessons to be learned