The earnings this year are pitiful. Anyone else notice? It feels directly correlated to team morale
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this was the first year i didnt donate once i saw them raise it from a minimum $1 donation to $5 i was like nope, iam good thank you.
Overall, the company participation has been decreasing since a pandemic high in 2020 ($4.3 million pledged): $3.9M in 2021; $3.8M in 2022; and now $3.1M in 2023. The overall participation rate for 2023 was 62%. In previous years, the campaign was prolonged a week or two, asking employees to reconsider giving to United Way. I believe the PTO incentive was raised to 8 hours one year. It might have been the year where Michael was the St. Louis United Way corporate chairman. I don't think one can blame the layoffs for all of the decrease in pledges and participation; this is an ongoing trend. I bet 2024 is even lower in both categories.
Give 5 or 10.00 take 4 hrs of pay ..hmmmm , play the game smarter not harder .
Asking employees to donate money while simultaneously taking away reimbursement, compensation all topped with the constant fear of more layoffs is not just tone deaf, it’s disgusting.
And yes, most accurate pulse survey ever.
Company finished at 62% participation...claims finished at 65%. And they didn't even push as hard as they usually do. They know people are mad and unhappy.
Kind of hope the company doesn’t hit 70%. Nothing against United Way but the spirit behind a good org is corrupted by how corporations like ours use it. They get the tax breaks and the glory / news from donating. Yet 4 hours of vacation is all we get. Pitiful.
It’s the most accurate pulse survey yet…
Every company I’ve worked for has done a United Way campaign and I’ve never once donated. I have a handful of smaller local nonprofits that I prefer to donate to directly.
I was literally just about to ask about that. I saw they were displayed yesterday and now it's disappeared. I think they were only at 34%.
Two more things to note. The 4 hours of PTO only applies to positions lower than director level, so the incentive is really only geared toward the lower staff to contribute to anyways
And, they have since removed the “CEO and executive” group from the large report, but they were the lowest contributors percentage wide in the “centene corporate functions” report.
If the CEOs and executives aren’t contributing it’s very hypocritical to expect others to contribute.
I understand that United Way is a good thing - but it troubles me that a company pushes this hard for its employees to give up their hard earned money for a charity. I kid you not
I have gotten at least 7 emails over the course of a 10 day just about UW. I believe that should be left up to the individual outside of work. If a company wants to support a charity they need to donate out of their own pocket - not their employees. A lot of people here are already not making ends meet and although I sympathize with the people UW helps - I am in no position especially not for 4 hrs of PTO least of all to help make Centene look good. If they really wanted to make a difference they wouldn't lay off 1000s of workers claiming financial hardship or they could donate a substantial amount in their name from the billions of revenue they generate every quarter.