Growing popularity of employee stock ownership programmes

Deloitte asked 177 large companies in 24 countries about how they motivate employees for the third time. Beáta Horváthné Szabó, director of Deloitte Zrt.’s tax department told that the results showed: employees’ level of motivation and loyalty to the company can be increased by implementing employee stock ownership programmes.

These schemes are less widely used in Central Europe yet, but more and more companies decide to introduce them. What is more, in Hungary the employee share ownership plan has come to life again. Participants get company shares free or with great discount, thanks to this often engaging themselves with the company in the long term.

Deloitte’s survey found that 90 percent of companies don’t regret having started the programme.