Tax Cowboy Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 Group: I am looking for studies performed after 2008-2010 market crash/recession that shows a greater number of employers wanting to set up an ESOP vs. that of having employees retirement at risk of wall street casino. I have found a few but not sure they are exactly what I'm looking for. Thoughts and comments appreciated. Thank you
ESOP Guy Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 I don't know about studies that showed they wanted to set up ESOPs to get out the market "casino" (a loaded term). There are studies that showed ESOP companies laid off fewer employees during 2008 than similar companies who didn't have an ESOP. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170425006676/en/Employee-Ownership-Companies-Laid-Workers-Firms-Recession https://www.nceo.org/assets/pdf/articles/EO_Costs_of_Unemployment.pdf https://www.esopassociation.org/articles/employee-owned-companies-have-fewer-layoffs The NCEO, ESOP Association, the Beyster Institute and the place at Rutgers in the first link are the best places to find research on employee ownership. The NCEO and ESOP Association tend to require membership to get their best research or you have to pay to get the research on a per paper/book basis. The lower cost of unemployment insurance by employee owned companies has even caught the eye of several congressmen. You could lower government costs and spread the benefits of employee ownership by encouraging employee ownership seems like good public policy to them. Hope that helps.
Corey Rosen, NCEO Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 Privately held companies use ESOPs most for business transtion, and the vast majority of ESOPs are in this category. The number of comapnies doing this has risen slightly per year but the numbe rof participants has grown a lot. You can see data on this at https://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-by-the-numbers Many public companies make their shares available as an investment option and/or match employee deferrals with company stock. In the wake of Enron, WorldCom, Lucent and many other companies that saw severe drops in their stock in the early 2000s, and then again in recession of 2008 and 2009, this practice became markedly less common, with employee investment in company stock in 401(k) plans dropping from a peak of about 19% of all assets to under 10% today. The "stock-drop" companies faced numerous lawsuits, and while few have actually been decided in favor of the plaintiffs, there have been a number of settlements for tens of millions of dollars each. In the Pension Protection Act of 2006, Congress also made changes to these plans to allow employees to diversify out of company stock quickly.
Tax Cowboy Posted March 10, 2020 Author Posted March 10, 2020 Thank you for very helpful responses!! Much appreciated.
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