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ESOP vs 401k: Which One is Better?

HR Digest

Employers are often tasked with whether they should go for an ESOP or 401K plan since they are the most common. If you don’t want to delve into the whole ESOP vs 401K debate, then should you go for both an ESOP and a 401K? In this article, we cover the following to compare ESOP vs 401K plan: What is ESOP?

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Time to Sell Your Business? An ESOP May Be the Answer

Strategy Driven

Let’s assume you started a digital marketing agency, a realistic example, given this industry is hot. Selling one’s company to an ESOP, an employee stock ownership plan, does just that. Selling to an ESOP preserves company culture and increases productivity, which generally ensures strong future performance.

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Fringe Benefits: What Are They and How Are They Helpful

HR Digest

Examples of these fringe benefits include: Retirement Plans Paid Vacation Gym memberships Meal subsidy Commuter Benefits Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Advantages of Offering Fringe Benefits Employees feel valued if they are provided excellent benefits packages. Most of these fringe benefits are taxable, barring few exceptions.

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Profit Sharing Boosts Employee Productivity and Satisfaction

Harvard Business Review

What if it risked enticing workers to “free-ride” on the efforts of more industrious coworkers? For instance, individuals who become part of all-employee share ownership plans (ESOPs) are given tax breaks to own their company’s stock. In other countries, including the UK and the U.S.,

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Huawei: A Case Study of When Profit Sharing Works

Harvard Business Review

At Huawei’s inception, Zhengfei designed the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The structure of the ESOP is based on two important premises. Huawei’s ESOP can satisfy both human needs. For its part, Huawei’s internal policy is to use U.S. law as the guiding law in their international business.).

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Treat Employees Like Business Owners

Harvard Business Review

And companies — except for the very smallest — can implement an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), often funded through borrowing. Just look at the supermarket industry to see such ownership in action. COGS dropped from roughly 30% of revenue to 26.5% over a four-week period, and continued to hold in the mid-20s.

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Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies

Harvard Business Review

Gore and Associates, are leaders in their industries. The largest industrial federation of worker cooperatives in the world, Mondragon Corporation, is one of Spain’s top 10 multinationals, with about $13 billion in revenue from 105 cooperatives, and 75,000 employees stretching across Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States.

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