Talking Drupal #390 - Employee Owned Companies

Today we are talking about Employee Owned Companies with Seth Brown.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/390

Topics

• What is employee ownership
• Why did Lullabot choose this path
• What is the process
• Other examples
• Has it improved the culture
• Are employees more engaged
• Retirement
• Why don’t more companies do this
• Favorite part of working at an employee owned company
• Least favorite part of working at an employee owned company
• Favorite part as CEO
• Does it reduce pressure
• Tugboat / Drupalize.me
• How to get started

Resources

• Lullabot.com
  • https://www.lullabot.com/articles/employee-owners-us
  • https://www.lullabot.com/news/lullabot-officially-becomes-employee-owned-company
• Planted game
• Employ owned companies
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_companies
  • https://nceo.org
• Stake in the outcome by Jack Stack

Guests

Seth Brown - https://www.lullabot.com/about/seth-brown

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
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