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10/06/2015
Around 2,000 customer-facing staff at Metro Bank share £10 million of stock options as a result of the bank’s recent flotation. The flotation activates share options worth an average £5,000 per employee, with those working at the bank since its launch in 2011 receiving the biggest pay-outs.
Gabbi Stopp, head of employee share ownership at ProShare, a membership body for the employee share ownership industry, said:
‘Metro Bank’s flotation is a great example to other fast-growing “challenger” organisations of the benefits of rewarding staff through employee share plans, and the importance of factoring in such schemes as an essential part of business plans . . . While some may still think that employee share ownership is the domain of large-scale and established operations, Metro Bank proves that employee share plans can be effective for businesses of every size and aspiration.’