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The best companies actually know this.

The companies that win awards for workplace flexibility in the United States include some of our most successful corporations, and a 2008 national study on the changing workforce showed that employees in flexible and effective workplaces are more engaged with their work, they're more satisfied and more loyal, they have lower levels of stress and higher levels of mental health.

And in Norway, where men have an automatic three month's paternity leave, but they lose it if they decide not to take it, a high government official told me that companies are starting to look at prospective male employees and raise an eyebrow if they didn't in fact take their leave when they had kids.

And local, domestic companies, in the past, have been protected from international competition by market controls.

Research companies actually track this impact by counting what is called "Taobao villages."

The problem is anonymous companies.

But anonymous companies are making it difficult and sometimes impossible to find out the actual human beings responsible sometimes for really terrible crimes.

And one of these is anonymous companies.

Now we've come up against anonymous companies in lots of our investigations, like in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where we exposed how secretive deals involving anonymous companies had deprived the citizens of one of the poorest countries on the planet of well over a billion dollars.

Or in Liberia, where an international predatory logging company used front companies as it attempted to grab a really huge chunk of Liberia's unique forests.

Well, that uses anonymous companies too.

We secretly filmed some of the family of the former chief minister and a lawyer as they told our undercover investigator exactly how these dubious deals are done using such companies.

Whether it's the ruthless Mexican drugs cartel, the Zetas, who use anonymous companies to launder profits while their drugs-related violence is tearing communities apart across the Americas.

Now anonymous companies are great for sanctions busting too.

As the Iranian government found out when, through a series of front companies, it owned a building in the very heart of Manhattan, on Fifth Avenue, despite American sanctions.

And Juicy Couture, home of of the velvet track suit, and other companies were the unwitting, unknowing tenants there.

There are just so many examples, the horesemeat scandal in Europe, the Italian mafia, they've used these companies for decades.

Anonymous companies have even come to light in the recent revolution in the Ukraine.

These are the companies that can set your one up for you, and remember, it's all legal, routine business practice.

You can simply keep adding layers, companies owned by companies.

You can have hundreds of layers with hundreds of companies spread across lots of different countries, like a giant web, each layer adds anonymity.

There hasn't even been a global conversation yet about whether it's okay to misuse companies in this way.

And as they looked for the owners of the club, they found instead anonymous companies, and confusion surrounded the identities of those involved with the companies.

Anonymous companies might be the norm right now but it wasn't always this way.

Companies were created to give people a chance to innovate and not have to put everything on the line.

Companies were created to limit financial risk, they were never intended to be used as a moral shield.

Companies were never intended to be anonymous, and they don't have to be.

My wish is for us to know who owns and controls companies so that they can no longer be used anonymously against the public good.

Together, we have to change the law globally to create public registries which list the true owners of companies and can be accessed by all with no loopholes.

Because this isn't just about changing the law, this is about starting a conversation about what it's okay for companies to do, and in what ways is it acceptable to use company structures.

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