Arineo becomes an employee company: workforce takes control!

Arineo becomes an employee company: workforce takes control!

Göttingen, Deutschland - The IT company Arineo, based in Göttingen, has been completely owned by its workforce since January 2025. This was implemented by the foundation of a foundation that was already planned in 2018 when founding the company. With this new structure, Arineo will in future be managed as an employee owned company (EOC). The employees indirectly direct the company's fate over the created company law structure.

In 2023, an association of employees was founded, which can join all employees who work for Arineo for more than six months. The organs of the association also form the organs of the foundation. Club members have an impact on corporate development, but no access to operational decisions. The innovative holder structure enables Arineo to keep capital generated in the company and specifically invest in the further training of the teams, expansion of the range of services and continuous improvement in performance quality.

participation and corporate management

Collegial corporate management leads to short coordination channels and maximum agility, so that both customers and the workforce benefit from the new structure. When the employee foundation was founded, Arineo was legally advised by Brandi Rechtsanwälte in Hanover. The advisory lawyers were Dr. Carsten Hoppmann, partner in the area of corporate law and foundation law, as well as Dr. Björn Schulz, Associate in the same department.

As part of the employee participation, companies can either grant real shares (equity participation) or virtual shares (Phantom Shares). Real shares enable employees to become a partner and to take part in shareholders' meetings and decision -making processes. Virtual shares, on the other hand, do not create direct shareholder rights, but offer contractual claims for profits and sales revenues. These different forms of participation can vary depending on the corporate structure and target group, as shown in an article on Freudenberg Law.