Employers urged to let staff take time off to volunteer

By Indira Das-Gupta, Third Sector Online, 18 January 2008

Companies that are are serious about improving their record on corporate social responsibility should pay their employees to take time off so they can volunteer, according to researchers.

Volunteering England’s Institute for Volunteering Research and the National Centre for Social Research found that 50 per cent of employees questioned about their organisations’ volunteering schemes said that having paid time off would encourage them a lot to participate “a lot”. Almost half – 42 per cent – said they...

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