Paid Volunteer Program

I have an exciting new idea that will benefit our employees, our community, and our company. Volunteering is this generation’s charitable donation. Instead of donating money to charity, let’s donate our service to the community. We have a chance to implement a program for our employees that can change our perception of charity. We can help our employees to help others in the community. This policy would provide each employee with five paid days for volunteer work. They would have a choice to volunteer at any place they would like or we could provide them with a place that may need help. Our employees would wear our company logo on a t-shirt that says volunteer. By encouraging our employees to volunteer, we are fulfilling our philanthropic duties to the community. Volunteer work is about more than doing a civil duty or getting paid, it makes us better people. Creating a paid volunteer program can have many benefits. (SLIDE 1)

For instance, allowing our employees paid time off for volunteer work will increase their trust in the company and boost morale. The increased trust in the company will reduce the amount of time our employees take off. Volunteer work can help our employees improve their personal skills and their team building skills. Employees will enjoy coming to work and the company will benefit from increased retention. Our productivity will increase with employee retention, boosted morale, and less employee sick time. Let’s not forget the benefits for our community. The reason why we want to give back is because the community has given to us so graciously. The increased payroll expenses will be returned through the increases from employee productivity. Allowing our employees a chance to truly help another soul will reinvigorate them to focus on work and be loyal to the company. We must present them with this opportunity for their benefit as well as ours. (SLIDE