Corporate giving totaled $18.55 billion in 2016, increasing 3.5 percent from the previous year. Many charitable groups benefit from those surplus dollars, from food banks to homeless shelters to medical organizations. Few people would question the outside benefits of office giving, but as an employee-centric organization, we were curious whether corporate charity has a positive influence on how someone feels about their workplace.
O.C. Tanner recently surveyed over 1,000 employees at companies across the U.S. to understand how they perceive corporate charitable giving. The responses were encouraging and instructive as to how employees feel about their charitable companies:
