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> I calculated how much that cost the company and made a presentation to my boss about how much more we could have done by hiring minimum wage workers to perform the same manual labor for the same $ they paid us.

This is funny and very self-aware of you, but you bring up a good point.

Would people feel worse/better/the same if the company said "you can take a day off today and we're going to give your day's salary to a bunch of minimum wage labor to perform charity work."

Or maybe give people the option to show up to the event or allow their salary that day to be use to pay a few people to show up in their place.




If it was a team building exercise, the altruism was not the point, but a vehicle for social cohesion.

Sending people home defeats the purpose.


If team building, then yes. But charity work doesn't really sound like team building. It sounds more like "look how good our company is we do charity work on company time" culture building.

In which case the goal is to make people feel good about the company.





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