Business View Magazine - Dec 2023

but also ensure the continuity of a model that empowers both businesses and their workforce. Additionally, it’s incredibly important to note that the data gathered in these studies aren’t always just number-based; a sizeable portion of it is quite personal and experiential. ESCA meets with “employee-owners whose lives have been changed by having a stake in their company, and they tell a story about how they will come together in hard times,” Montaño says, referring to how being financially invested inspired the employee-owners of many of ESCA’s members to band together to ensure that their companies stayed afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. “So, they tell that story, but that is [also] supplemented by this great data that we have that shows us the strength of these businesses–the 137 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 12 EMPLOYEE OWNED S CORPORAT IONS OF AMERICA