{"id":54662,"date":"2026-06-15T19:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-i-sold-my-business-to-my-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:12:54","slug":"why-i-sold-my-business-to-my-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-i-sold-my-business-to-my-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I sold my business to my staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Stockwell made the decision to sell to his employees after seeing what happened to other firms that had been bought out. &#8220;The new [outside] ownership might move the business, they might shut it down, or drastically change it in other ways, and the people remaining are stuck,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0ey87z1ggjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stockwell made the decision to sell to his employees after seeing what happened to other firms that had been bought out. &#8220;The new [outside] ownership might move the business, they might shut it down, or drastically change it in other ways, and the people remaining are stuck,&#8221; he says. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[2253,3683,123],"class_list":["post-54662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-business","tag-sold","tag-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54664,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54662\/revisions\/54664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}