Some worker-owners thought otherwise. They felt that maybe EE should use this opportunity to take a step back and reorganize the co-operative internally. By now, the number of employees had increased to 110. The reorganization would include creating different groups that would each focus on a specific aspect of the business. The worker-owners would assess their needed resources and make autonomous decisions about how to expand based on outside market data. These units would be responsible for better preparing EE to overcome the many market obstacles that had developed in each of the sectors in which it operated