Employee Ownership

Our ESOP Transition

As part of our ongoing commitment to our employees, we are excited to share a significant milestone in our journey: the transition of Tisch Environmental, Inc. to 100% employee owned in 2023. This transformative change marks a new era of shared ownership, collaboration, and opportunity for our entire team.

With the establishment of an ESOP, every member of our team becomes a stakeholder in our success. That alignment supports greater financial security and stability for employees, while strengthening ownership and pride in the work.

In practice, this means every employee at Tisch Environmental has a direct, ongoing interest in where the company is headed, not just in the day to day of their own role. It changes the questions we ask ourselves when we make decisions, favoring the choice that serves our customers and our team well into the future over the one that only looks good in the short term. It also means the responsibility of protecting what makes Tisch Environmental different, our attention to detail, our responsiveness, and the trust we have built with the agencies, laboratories, and researchers who depend on us, now belongs to everyone here, not just to leadership.

That shared responsibility is, in many ways, the whole point of the transition. It is not a change we made for its own sake. It is a structure meant to keep the people who build our equipment, answer our phones, and stand behind our products just as invested in getting it right as the people who founded this company decades ago.

What is an ESOP?

An ESOP, or Employee Stock Ownership Plan, is a retirement plan that provides employees with an ownership interest in the company they work for. A trust is established on behalf of employees, and that trust holds shares of company stock on their behalf. As employees continue their careers with Tisch Environmental, they accumulate a beneficial ownership stake over time, typically vesting according to years of service.

Unlike a traditional retirement account funded primarily through employee contributions, an ESOP is funded by the company itself. That means employees build ownership value as part of their employment, rather than as a separate savings decision they have to make on their own. In our case, it means every member of our team, regardless of role or department, becomes a beneficial owner of Tisch Environmental, holding a real stake in its success and its future.

As the company grows and performs well over time, that ownership stake has the potential to grow in value right alongside it. It is a structure built on trust: the trust that leadership places in employees to act like owners, and the trust employees place in the company to manage that shared future responsibly.

Why Choose a 100% Employee-Owned Model?

By becoming 100% employee-owned, we are embracing a model where each employee has a direct stake in the success of our company. This is not simply a change in paperwork or a shift in who technically owns the business. It changes the way we think about our work day to day. When ownership is shared this broadly, decisions naturally lean toward what will serve the company, our customers, and our team well over the years ahead, rather than what looks best in the moment.

It also means that the people building, testing, and shipping our equipment, the people answering customer calls, and the people planning what comes next for Tisch Environmental are the very same people who benefit when the company succeeds. That alignment, more than anything else, is why we believe this model is the right one for our future.

None of this changes who we are or what we have always tried to do for the people who rely on us. What it does is give every one of us a clearer, more personal reason to keep doing it well, today, next year, and for the decades of Tisch Environmental still ahead.