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Worker-directors can help businesses beat the market: study
Published Fri, Jul 22, 2016 · 09:50 PM
New York
GIVING board seats to employees familiar with factory floors can help businesses beat the market, sometimes by huge margins.
That's the finding in a Bloomberg review of countries where worker-directors are common but not required by law. Indices of companies with employees on their boards in Norway, Sweden and Austria each beat benchmark indices in those nations by 30 per cent or more since July 2011.
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