Member surveys on employee ownership and the COVID-19 pandemic

To gather data about how employee-owned companies performed during the COVID-19 pandemic and whether employee ownership was a competitive advantage.

Surveys of members of the National Center for Employee Ownership.

Employee-owned companies were more likely to have positive than negative outcomes and many attribute part of their success to their employee ownership structure.

Data was from NCEO member companies and not a representative sample of employee-owned companies.

Companies should consider employee ownership as a strategy; employee-owned companies should consider employee engagement efforts.

This includes the first data gathered specifically on employee-owned companies during the pandemic.