How to be a successful employee-owner
OLS is a content design studio with over 15 years' experience of collaborating with global brands to bring creative thinking to their content production. We're expert at working with in-house teams to help them create more, with less.
We are here to break down the barriers, for ourselves and for our clients, to better creative.
Why?
Because ultimately we want to create great work that we can be proud of. And we want to create great work our clients can be proud of.
How?
By sticking to our core principles of offering quality work and service to clients who trust us to deliver and with colleagues who trust each other to work together as a team. By using our ingenuity to think of how to do things smarter, better, and with passion, but also with simplicity at heart - there's really no need to over complicate anything after all! And lastly, by making sure we all find joy in the experience while its happening because if everyone enjoys something, we are going to do it better.
What does this have to do with employee ownership?
Some of the key benefits that employee ownership can bring align with the above so well, it's a surprise we didn't do it before! Employee ownership places transparency, innovation, ownership, and collaboration at its heart. All we need to do is make communication of what can be quite a complex concept simple and we are confident that we'll all then start to enjoy the benefits it brings to their fullest.
So what could employee ownership mean to you?
We talk about the benefits employee ownership brings to you, under the 3 headings Information (more detailed company information is now shared in the OLS X), Influence (forum for your voice to be heard as a shareholder in the quarterly Owner Hat Chats) and Reward (annual bonus - tax free in UK-, plus longer term rewards available). But as someone cleverly pointed out, what we have been less clear on is what you might be able to do day to day, as an employee-owner, that could make a difference.
The simplest way to describe that is by thinking about the mindset shift that the changed position from employee to employee-owner encourages...