Basically, the owner sells their shares to a trust, which then pays the owner and the employees gain ownership over a period of time as the financing is paid back.
Aardman Animation Is Giving the Company to Their Employees
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#22Re: Aardman Animation Is Giving the Company to Their Employees
#23Employee ownership is a very old concept. All studies have shown that they are risk averse and have poor growth. I’d love for this to work, but you can’t fantasize your way to results.
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#24Employee ownership is a very old concept. All studies have shown that they are risk averse and have poor growth. I’d love for this to work, but you can’t fantasize your way to results.
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#25Re: Aardman Animation Is Giving the Company to Their Employees
#26Employee ownership is a very old concept. All studies have shown that they are risk averse and have poor growth. I’d love for this to work, but you can’t fantasize your way to results.
What's wrong with being stable and providing a decent livelihood?
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#27Employee ownership is a very old concept. All studies have shown that they are risk averse and have poor growth. I’d love for this to work, but you can’t fantasize your way to results.
They are experts in successfully fantasizing their way to results.
As far as being risk averse or having poor growth, their employees are animators. It is not a trade you take up if you tend to be risk averse.
Growth will be judged a frame at a time, but growth is only vitally important to investors and is not that sane a metric of success.
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#28Not to be a cynic, but the owner can get a lot of benefits (including tax benefits) from selling to their employees versus an outright acquisition by an outside party. Basically, the owner sells their shares to a trust, which then pays the owner and the employees gain ownership over a period of time as the financing is paid back.
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#29Employee ownership is a very old concept. All studies have shown that they are risk averse and have poor growth. I’d love for this to work, but you can’t fantasize your way to results.
Why does everything have to be growth, growth, growth, growth? What's wrong with being stable and providing a decent livelihood?
Re: Aardman Animation Is Giving the Company to Their Employees
#30Employee ownership is a very old concept. All studies have shown that they are risk averse and have poor growth. I’d love for this to work, but you can’t fantasize your way to results.
If your idea of a company's success is how much profit it accrues, maybe it's time to question why it is you think that's a good thing.