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Previously recorded topics
What to Consider When Expanding Your Employee Equity Plans Internationally
With increased globalization and a more mobile workforce, companies are expanding their employee equity plans globally. Discover how two companies successfully expanded their plans internationally, and how they navigated the complexities and are now thriving with their global plans.
How to Establish an ESPP
If you’re considering offering an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) at your company, or if you’re in the early stages of researching one, don’t miss this two-part webinar series on how to establish an ESPP. These webinars will act as a primer on what you need to know to navigate the process for bringing an ESPP to your company.
Part 1: Design, Budget and Approvals
In part one, you’ll hear from experts at Computershare on the initial steps it takes to get an ESPP up and running, including determining the right design, setting a budget, and getting both internal stakeholder and external shareholder approval for the plan.
Part 2: Implement, Administer and Communicate
In the second part of this two-part series, Computershare’s experts go through what is involved with implementing your ESPP, administration considerations, and how best to communicate your plan to eligible employees.
Effective Stock Plan Strategies that Impact Organizational, Strategic and Financial Outcomes
An employee stock purchase plan can be an effective benefit to offer your employees, if you employ the right strategies. Join us for this informative webinar to see research conducted at Rutgers Institute for Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing on proven share plan strategies that have shown to positively impact employee, strategic and organizational outcomes.
Measuring the Impact of Employee Equity Plans on Employee Engagement
Join this exciting look into measuring the impact of employee share plans on employee engagement. This panel will introduce the concepts surrounding employee engagement—from discussing how engagement can be classified to defining and measuring engagement, and with your participation, this session will take a deeper dive into what engagement should mean to you and your organization. Attendees will be asked to consider and discuss the role share-based awards play in effective employee engagement and will learn how engagement measures differ for broad-based to discretionary plans, how share plan awards can have a negative impact on engagement, how removing a share plan can affect employee engagement, and how employee equity plans can really unite a business.
Dealing with Equity Awards when Employment Status Changes
Employment status may change at any time for a variety of reasons, including death, disability, retirement, leave of absence, transfer between entities, corporate restructuring or a change in control transaction. The panelists will explain how such changes can affect the taxation of equity awards and/or raise new or challenging regulatory compliance issues and provide real-world examples of different approaches companies take when dealing with changes in employment status and the advantages and disadvantages each.
More than Half the Story: Why Fractional Shares Matter
Buying fractional shares—less than one share of company stock—under an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) is not a new concept, but hasn’t been widely used in practice yet, partly because companies simply aren’t aware of the tremendous value that fractional shares can offer. With stock purchase programs going through a new era of appreciation and plenty of employees out there who want to participate in these plans, now is the perfect time to consider introducing fractional share purchases into your program. Find out why in this webcast.
From “Ordinary” to “Extraordinary”: Solving Your Participant Communications Challenges
Conventional ways often lead to conventional results—if you want to achieve different (better) results with your participant communications, you’ll need to think about new ways of communicating / ways to communicate differently. This session will cast a critical eye on the old and examine the opportunities for “different” with your participant communications. Panelists will provide examples and exchange ideas on the very best ways to get your participants attention immediately. From communicating change, to nurturing culture; from improving awareness to driving behavioral shifts, this session has it all and will guide organizations of all shapes, sizes and sectors to boost the impact of their internal communications. Leave with new ideas you’re excited about.
Don't Let Manual Process Drain Your Productivity
One of the single most beneficial things you can do for your department is to create scalable efficiencies for common processes to support your world-wide stock plans. From creating year-to-date multi-jurisdictional tax imports to managing more complex projects like payroll contributions for a global ESPP program to identifying mobile transactions for flagging for securing tax settlement/payroll reporting and withholding, these tasks take time and are prone to human error. If manual processes are draining your productivity, this session is for you! Join in to learn how to free up time, valuable talent and operating costs.
Offering stock plans in Europe: A new opportunity
The European Prospectus Directive (EUPD) has historically been a barrier to non-European companies offering their stock plans in Europe. In July 2019, the EUPD was replaced by new regulation which allows non-European companies to rely on the employee share plan exemption. There is no longer a requirement to produce a lengthy and costly prospectus. In light of this good news, now is the time to revisit your share offering in Europe. Join us for a discussion of the key changes and what this means in practice.
Ready or Not, Here Comes the Global Audit
Join us for some practical tips for global stock plan administrators when prepping for the annual audit. Expert speakers will review why SOX continues to be important and help you identify key controls that every company should be employing. Gain insight on how to effectively work with internal and external auditors, avoid some pitfalls, and solve for potential challenges.
Equity Compensation in Corporate Actions
Nothing can be more disruptive to an outstanding grant than a corporate action, such as an M&A or a spin-off. Making sure each person's grant gets through the event with the proper revaluation is a complicated task at best. Join us for this informative webinar and what you need to know to successfully navigate your company's equity plans through a corporate action.
On the Go With Mobility Compliance
Whether starting from scratch or enhancing an existing mobility compliance program, this webcast will provide you with the most important related considerations that should be top of mind at your company. Get tips for managing your mobile workforce, hear the latest trends in mobility compliance and tax audit activity, and get best practices examples from the front line. Don’t let the quest to meet business needs quickly overshadow the importance of implementing or taking care of your own mobility compliance program.
Is Your Equity Plan Effective?
Join Carine Schneider from Nua Group and Carmen Anderson from Computershare as they walk you through the steps to determine how effective your equity plans really are, including understanding the basic information needed to analyze your stock option, RSU and ESPP plans, and how to prepare your analysis for management.
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