Get a slice of the action
If you are an employee in demand, you could be offered shares or options by a company as a motivation to join or an incentive to stick around.
Employee share and option schemes have been growing in popularity over the past couple of years, particularly in the technology and start-up sectors. They are being offered by both listed and unlisted companies.
“Working from home and burnout from the pandemic has resulted in all employers considering their value propitiation to employees,” says Peter Bardos, HLB Mann Judd’s Sydney tax director.
There is a war for talented employees, particularly in light of “the great resignation”, which in the US has seen 48 million people leave their jobs and in Australia is becoming evident, too.
Two in five Australian workers (43%) are unhappy with their work and plan to search for a new job in 2022, according to a survey by Elmo Software.
It found that a third of workers say they
