Episode 14 - PTO Donations

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There are these workplace programs where employees are encouraged to donate their paid time off to their colleagues who are in dire situations. At a first glance, it might seem like a kind gesture; you got a workforce community that is helping each other out. But if you stop and really think about it, there's something that seems off about these acts of charity. Now depending on how limited the benefits are at a workplace, these donation programs are a system where workers are asked to give up their hard-earned time for the sake of charity. You gotta wonder: why are the employees being asked to step in for such issues that perhaps the organization should be handling itself? Why is it that the workers, who accrue so little for a slice of relief, are the ones who have to make the sacrifice, using the time off that they earned as currency, just to cover for gaps in policies or safety nets that the company refuses to ever sort out? On the front, they are acts of kindness, but they also camouflage the much deeper issues; the systemic shortcomings that organizations prefer to sweep under the rug. When employees are expected to shoulder the burden of problems they didn’t create, without extra pay or recognition; when you put it that way, it sounds horrible. Who truly benefits from this and who ends up paying the price? The quiet reason behind it all is that these organizations who encourage these programs want to keep things running smoothly without dealing with the real issues. It’s the easy way out, one that places the burden on their workers instead of fixing the root causes.

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