Planet Money
A pro-worker experiment in private equity
Apr 08, 2026
· 25m
Live event info and tickets here. If your company got bought by a private equity firm, how would you feel? Maybe a little nervous? You might find yourself wondering if there will be layoffs. And you’d be right to worry about that. Research shows that while private equity ownership can boost a company’s productivity, it does generally result in job cuts. But one private equity executive is trying to do things a different way – giving workers equity, little cuts …
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