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How to engage employees with corporate volunteering
Understand why volunteering is so crucial to your workforce
Mental ill health is the single most common cause for long-term absence from work. (Health and Wellbeing 2020 report.)
It's also costing businesses £45 billion a year. (Deloitte, 2019)
To combat this, 'doing good' can (and should) be built into your employee wellbeing strategy.
Volunteering can have a major positive impact on happiness levels
Even people who suffer from mental illnesses can see “improvement in their outlook and mental health through volunteering. It gives them a sense of direction and meaning.”
When you’re happier, you do better work and are more creative, which makes for a more productive employee.
50%
of all customer attitudes to a brand are shaped by how management behaves and the way the company engages with social issues. (Fleishmann Hillard Fishburn's 2019 Authenticity Gap report).
94%
of people who volunteered said it improved their mood and research shows that feel good hormones and brain activity are higher during volunteering activities. (United Health Group)
How we overcome your volunteering barriers
Time Constraints
Professionals are busy, and the pandemic has seen most of us deciding what’s really important. If you’re going to spend precious time doing anything, it’s got to be worthwhile. Micro volunteering (volunteering in small, bite-size chunks) has been increasing in popularity for the past 20 years, and it has the potential to drastically increase participation in employee volunteering.
The Personal Experience
f we really want to make a difference it can’t be just about the simple act of volunteering anymore, it has to be about everything else that goes with it: super-slick tech, that enables the volunteering experience, has to be the norm. Micro volunteering makes things flexible and opens up a whole host of new volunteering opportunities that you wouldn’t have otherwise.
Trackability
If you’re wanting to invest in efforts to make a huge difference to your community as an organisation, you’re going to need to show people how much of an impact you’re actually making. Show us our own statistics and we’re going to want to beat them.