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Work to Own founder William Mundell delivers a TEDx talk in April 2026 describing the EO Index as a catalyst for economic transformation.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
Declining economic mobility and a growing wealth gap are straining American democracy and trust in our institutions
Work to Own is developing the Employee Ownership (EO) Index to equip public companies to optimize the broad deployment of equity to their employees
45% of S&P 500 companies offer equity to non-executive employees
33% of S&P 500 firms offer only purchase–based plans, such as ESPPs and ESOPs
RSU configurations account for 60% of equity grant plans
11% offer grant–based equity, such as RSUs and options, to non-executive employees
Options–only plans account for only 3% of equity grant plans
R&D intensity is the key predictor of deploying equity grants beyond management
U.S. family wealth grew from $51 to $199 trillion between 1989 and 2022
Top 10% captured 70%
Bottom 10% captured 1%
No public dataset currently tracks who gets what equity below the C-Suite in U.S. public companies...
Our LLM–assisted research reveals firms offering incentive–based equity beyond the C–suite generate higher returns
Mission
To empower American companies with a market-driven tool to shape a new standard for broad-based ownership of company equity by American employees.
Equip companies to correlate data with performance metrics
Inform the market to set a new standard for broad-based ownership
Provide American workers with the opportunity to generate wealth
EO Index
Work to Own is developing the Employee Ownership (EO) Index to equip companies to determine the optimal balance of employee ownership across the pay scale.
The EO Index is an information tool focused on demonstrating the relationship between broad-based employee ownership and firm value.
With support from:
In the News
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Thursday, May 9, 2024: Making Corporations The Change Agents To Jumpstart Economic Mobility
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Wednesday, Sept 18, 2024: Corporations As Change Agents by Bill Mundell and David Dreier
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Creating a More Economically Mobile Society
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Upward Mobility is Impeded
To most Americans, the promise of equal opportunity remains an illusion. Research by Opportunity Insights at Harvard University reveals that 90% of children born in 1940 grew up to earn more than their parents. For children born in 1980, this figure has declined to 50%.
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EO Index: Leveraging Free Market Forces
The Employee Ownership (EO) Index is being developed as a strategic measurement tool to equip American companies to take the lead in shaping a market-driven standard for broad-based ownership of equity by their employees.
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A Catayst For Change
Employee ownership is an arrangement in which an employee gains ownership of equity (otherwise known as stock or shares) in a company, thereby acquiring the opportunity to benefit from future cash flows generated by the company.
“We are developing the EO Index at a turning point in the country where government redistribution programs can’t fix a systemic failure in the marketplace and Americans have increasingly lost faith in economic mobility for all.”
— Bill Mundell, Work to Own Founder and Chairman
Contact
Feel free to contact us with questions.
Email
jonathan@worktoownproject.org
lew@worktoownproject.org