A recent survey by the Employee Ownership Foundation and the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing shows that employee-owned firms during the current economic crisis have laid off fewer employees than comparable conventionally owned firms. Employee-owned firms were also less likely to reduce employees’ pay and hours and more likely to provide personal protective gear. Employee-owned firms that did not receive emergency government loans were actually three times more likely to retain employees than conventional firms receiving federal assistance.