Dear EOA Subscriber,

We are delighted to welcome Simon Lincoln of Make Architects and Janna DeVylder of Meld Studios for our next EOA Experts Panel webinar to discuss Employee Ownership - So What? What it means for your employees to be owners.

This webinar will be held on Wednesday, 17th May 2023 at 10 AM (AEST).

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join the webinar.

Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_l-_jXtKjSNKGffi3Ec-ULQ

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As more interest grows in Employee Ownership by Trust (EOT) in Australia, there is more curiosity around the benefits, opportunities, and challenges of being an employee who has the benefit of ownership.

Join Simon Lincoln, Asia Pacific Director at Make Architects, and Janna DeVylder, Co-Founder and Director at Meld Studios, for our next EOA Experts Panel webinar to discuss what it means for employees to be owners.

We’ll explore topics such as purpose & job satisfaction, voice & participation, financial reward, and transparency & decision-making.

We look forward to exploring these topics with you.

To start the conversation, you might want to check out these two articles:

1. On Make Architects – What it is like to work for a 100% employee-owned business.

2. On Meld Studios – Australia’s first company to become employee-owned by trust.

Watch the recording: EOA Experts Panel Webinar ‘Tackling the worker engagement deficit’

Employee Ownership Australia (EOA) ensures ongoing advocacy for broad-based employee ownership and dynamic workplace participation in Australian companies. We engage with and assist companies that have or aim to implement employee ownership or employee share plans, whilst also being a key advocacy body for broad-based employee ownership.

From their recent work with a range of mutual enterprises, Anna Booth and Clive Thompson from EOA member, CoSolve, discussed the promises, the challenges, and the obstacles surrounding the quest for cooperative workplaces in Australian industry.

With the evidence available showing that ‘shared ownership’ encourages productive relations in the workplace, it is clear that deeper insights into workplace dynamics, the careful shaping of workplace culture, and gainsharing are key drivers for success. Where employers and employees collaborate to improve the performance of their business, there are better prospects of joint success, including better job security, higher wages, and higher profits. The lesson for the broader employee ownership sector appears to be that ‘ownership’ without ‘participation’ produces very little by way of mutual gain.

Share your story with EOA!

EOA is looking to publish more stories about employee share ownership schemes in 2023. If you manage or are involved in an employee ownership project we'd love to hear from you! Questions for the publication will include why the specific scheme was launched, whether the main objectives were achieved, whether the scheme has been successful and what the average employee participation rate is. If you would like to be involved, please email EOA Communications Officer at info@employeeownership.com.au