Employee share ownership
Integrateshareholding into the overall remuneration package for your key employees
A shareholding solution tailored to your growth plans and the profiles of the employees concerned. Find out more about our Employee Share Ownership solutions or get in touch with our experts.
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Understanding your challenges
How do you choose an employee share ownership solution tailored to your company's context and objectives, which can be multiple and complementary?
How do you choose the right solution for the size of your company and the number and type of employees involved?
How can we turn employee share ownership into a management and loyalty tool , and not just a means of sharing in financial performance?
The benefits of employee share ownership
Support
pragmatic
A pragmatic support approach, adapted to the size of the company and the specificities of its development project.
Training
Support for all the stages specific to employee share ownership that precede contractual implementation, provided by the legal specialist.
Enhancing the specific role of share ownership
This support emphasizes the specific role of shareholding within the overall remuneration package of the employees concerned.
The stages of employee share ownership
Discover the main stages involved in setting up an employee share ownership scheme, from initial diagnosis to communication with beneficiaries. A structured, pragmatic and tailor-made approach, to transform employee share ownership into a real lever for loyalty and collective performance.
Step 1
Diagnosis
A diagnosis of the context, objectives and specific expectations of decision-makers and employee beneficiaries.
Step 2
Solution recommendations
Recommendations on a shareholding solution adapted to the objectives, the employees concerned, the timetable, the conditions of allocation and purchase, the terms of exit, etc...
Step 3
Implementation
Implementation support with the company's legal partner
Step 4
Simulations
Support for simulations and communication of the finalized project to beneficiaries
Key figures
1 in 2 employees
becomes a shareholder after 3 years
"MCR helped us, along with our financial advisor, to design the financial plan. Above all, MCR helped us to motivate the new shareholders, drawing on our corporate culture to trigger change. The result was a resounding success: 350 managers, i.e. almost 90% of those approached, chose to become shareholders."
Nicholas JACHIET
President, EGIS
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Why choose
MCR Rewards
Our mission is to provide tailor-made solutions for the sustainable growth of companies and their employees.
158% increase
employee share ownership.
Employee share ownership is on the increase overall in France, including in unlisted companies. Equalis Capital, whose barometer measures employee shareholder investment in unlisted companies, forecasts an increase of 13.9% in 2023, and 158% over 5 years.
40% of companies
declare that the 1st objective is to support growth.
According to a survey carried out by OpinionWay for Eres, employee share ownership in unlisted companies has doubled compared to 2015 to reach 9% of companies, with 40% of companies stating that the 1st objective is to support growth.
Optimization
salary reviews with a solid, objective basis.
6 out of 10 companies will favor the publication of salary ranges in job offers (Study carried out by the YouGov institute for PageGroup in July 2024).
Do you have any questions?
The answers can be found here.
Is employee share ownership appropriate for companies that are not experiencing strong growth?
Some shareholding tools, such as BSPCEs, are more appropriate for fast-growing companies, but if the aim is to build loyalty or share performance, for example, performance-based free share grants (AGAs) or collective shareholding solutions (FCPEs) may be more appropriate.
Share ownership is more of a financial issue than an HR issue. Is this very different for employee share ownership?
On the one hand, the technical and financial aspects of employee share ownership are rarely well known by beneficiaries who are not company directors, especially in the unlisted sector.
But beyond that, it's above all the understanding of the objectives sought by the company and those expected by the beneficiaries that is strategic to the success of such a project.