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Employers Say ESOPs are Good for Business
According to the Foundation’s announcement of survey results, 72% of responding companies also indicated they outperformed three major stock indices – the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the NASDAQ Composite, and the S&P 500.
J. Michael Keeling, president of the Employee Ownership Foundation, said in the announcement, “These numbers prove what we in the ESOP community have been saying for more than 15 years – employee ownership creates better companies.”
Additionally, 68% of survey respondents indicated the ESOP improved the overall productivity of the company’s employees
Additional information can be found at www.employeeownershipfoundation.org or www.esopassociation.org .