Survey Data Shows Lower Turnover Among ESOPs

Our recent ESOP Topics Survey gathered data from 160 ESOP companies on how they're handling the COVID-19 crisis and other issues, including questions about their turnover rates in 2019. The surveyed ESOP companies reported dramatically lower turnover than overall national averages.

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Mountainland's Anderson going out on top of game

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Orem, Utah-based Mountainland Supply President and CEO Brent Anderson quickly went on the offensive.

And the No. 1 goal: Keep Mountainland Contractors Supply Group (the holding company that Mountainland Supply is part of) and its 470 employee [owners] strong so it can continue providing top-notch service to customers throughout the distributor's 25 locations in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.

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When Bosses Shared the Profits

After the bruising crises we're now going through, it would be wonderful if we could somehow emerge a fairer nation. One possibility is to revive an old idea: sharing the profits.

The original idea for businesses to share profits with workers emerged from the tumultuous period when America shifted from farm to factory. In December 1916, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a report on profit-sharing, suggesting it as a way to reduce the "frequent and often violent disputes" between employers and workers, thereby "fostering the development of a larger spirit of harmony and cooperation, and resulting, incidentally, in greater efficiency and larger gains."

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