It seems that it’s happening in ever increasing numbers and employers are supporting this, whereby employees are taking [paid] time off work to act as volunteers and their doing it on company time.
In a recent article, I’ve read that employees are taking advantage of ‘service leave’ to be able to be away from their ‘full time’ job and become active in their community conducting volunteer work.
In a recent report it showed that in 2005 only 150 employees had ‘services leave’ and so had permission from their employer to conduct such volunteer work…interestingly in 2010 some 1050 staff were accessing such leave, this is a 600 percent increase in the last five years.
There are a number of large organisations involved in this program that supports charities like the Australian Red Cross, Mission Australia and The Smith Family.
In addition to this being good for the company’s reputation, it seems as though it’s having a positive impact upon staff morale and retention! For those workers who are ‘values driven’ participating in volunteer programs gives them an alignment between the jobs and their values!
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