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This paper analyzes the relationship between investor horizons and employee satisfaction. Because employee satisfaction generates substantial value over the long run, it is well suited to provide an empirical test of Bénabou and Tirole (2010)'s “long-term perspective” vision of CSR. We provide two complementary pieces of evidence supporting the idea that when CSR is about maximizing intertemporal profits, long-term investors play a critical role in promoting CSR. First, we find that long-term investor ownership is associated with employee satisfaction even after controlling for socially-responsible investor ownership. Importantly, long-term investor ownership is positively associated with both employee-friendly initiatives, which represent inputs conducive to employee satisfaction, and employee satisfaction itself measured by the presence in the list of the “Best Companies to Work for in America”. Second, unlike socially-responsible investor ownership, long-term investor ownership is not positively related to any other dimensions of CSR (e.g., environment, community, and product). Additional tests show that the association between investor horizons and employee satisfaction is not primarily due to a selection effect but rather reflects a direct influence of long-term investors