Should Companies Be Owned by Their Workers?

The employee ownership movement is growing, and one of its biggest champions is also a private equity heavyweight. Is this meaningful change, or just window dressing? SOURCES: Marjorie Kelly , distinguished senior fellow at The Democracy Collaborative. Corey Rosen , founder and senior staff member of the National Center for Employee Ownership. Pete Stavros , co-head of Global Private Equity at KKR. RESOURCES: " Private Equity Is Starting to Share With Workers, Without Taking a Financial Hit ," by Lydia DePillis ( The New York Times, 2024). " Private Equity Heavyweight Pushing Employee Ownership ," ( 60 Minutes, 2024). " Ownership Works: Scaling a Profitable Social Mission ," by Ethan Rouen, Dennis Campbell, and Andrew Robinson ( HBS Case Collection, 2023). " Research on Employee Ownership ," by the National Center for Employee Ownership (2023). Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises , by Marjorie Kelly (2023). " Is Private Equity Joining — or Co-Opting—the Employee Ownership Movement? " by Marjorie Kelly and Karen Kahn ( Fast Company, 2022). " How Well Is Employee Ownership Working? " by Corey Rosen and Michael Quarrey (…