We
have been helping corporates do their
employee volunteering. Infact, it was
the focus of our work.
We
know for corporate employees, its just
half an hour work but if we include time
for traveling to the destination and back
to office, it is half day.
But
for us (the organisers) it almost took
2 to 3 months, taking government permissions,
helping our team how to deal with employees
, senior employees, CEOs, Board members
.... partnership with NGOs across India
if the event is national event .... and
for the children in schools with whom
the corporate employees interacted, it
was fun day, it was knowledge day, it
was a quiz day, it was a day where they
had opportunity to show their smartness
with corporates ...
But
all said and done, it was just a day.
(e.g. toothpaste or soap is used just
for a minute or two or maybe five minutes.
But manufacturing, transportation, makreting,
selling it through shops or malls, income
from each soap, total income, total expenditure,
tax to be paid and profit to be shared
to shareholders, investors ... takes lot
of time for a company. So Lifebuoy soap
may cost employees Rs 5, but selling millions
of Lifebuoy soaps in metros, cities, villages
.. need employees at all levels to contribute
their time, talent ...
So
1 soap is not Rs 5. Its efforts of many
people. And of course company's cant sell
1 soap, they need to sell millins to make
a profitable venture but for use, its
1 soap.
So
1 day, theoretically, technically and
legally is 1 day.
But its efforts of many people and its
volume
If
you dont think it makes sense to read,
imagine you had a heart attack and cardica
surgeopn did just 1 hour operation and
you are back to normal.
Can you equate it to just 1 hour.
Again, you may equate it to your 1 hour
but what about the anxious moments of
your family, your friends, your colleagues,
your employees ... integrate it and its
not 1 hour
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