Employee Ownership Debate

The cluster centers on discussions advocating for employees to be shareholders or own the company outright, questioning traditional separations between workers and owners, and promoting employee-owned companies or equity stakes.

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Sample Comments

piva00 Jun 5, 2023 View on HN

Employees are shareholders, so there's ownership.

kouru225 Feb 8, 2025 View on HN

Give ownership of the company to the workers?

This can only be done if workers have actual ownership stake in the company enough to do this.

nerdponx Mar 20, 2023 View on HN

Why shouldn't employees also be shareholders with a collectively nontrivial voting stake?

lolindian Apr 23, 2010 View on HN

How about this: Employers who don't give proportional ownership of the company to workers are terrible employers and living off of your sweat.

tacocataco Jun 3, 2020 View on HN

Sounds like the workers should own the company, not private individuals.

megaman22 Oct 19, 2017 View on HN

The shareholders own the company. If you want your employees to be shareholders, give them stock grants.

uoaei Nov 24, 2022 View on HN

Simple solution: make the employees the shareholders.

jjfoooo4 Jun 11, 2022 View on HN

Their employees are also shareholders

intelVISA Sep 11, 2024 View on HN

If you don't have significant ownership of the company you're a worker, no?