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BUSINESS SENSE BY ZEYNEP ILGAZ, CONFIRM BIOSCIENCES


How Helping Your Community Can Help Your Bottom Line


When team members volunteer together, they share a positive experience that builds a bond. In fact, in an employee poll, UnitedHealth Group learned that 81 percent of its workers thought volunteering had helped them create stronger company- wide friendships and connections.


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t is our duty as human beings to help one another—and as drug and alcohol testing professionals, we


do that every single day. However, at the same time, I believe we should also step outside of our office buildings to volunteer within our communities. I know. Te idea of investing time and money toward causes that don’t directly contribute to your botom line probably doesn’t sound very appealing. I’m quite familiar with that dilemma. When our company, Confirm


Biosciences, was younger and smaller, we were operating on a super-lean budget with limited resources. As much as we wanted to invest in charitable causes, we didn›t think we had enough capital to do so. But we quickly realized that it was actually possible to volunteer outside of normal working hours for litle-to-no cost. For example, we began our charitable


efforts by hosting beach clean-ups and serving food at homeless shelters on the weekends. Tese were simple activities that made a big difference in our community—and our employees loved taking part in them. Your team would probably love


volunteering, too. According to a recent survey by America’s Charities, 82 percent of employees say they want to volunteer with their co-workers in company- sponsored events. But beyond it being the right thing to


do—and something your employees want to do—volunteering also yields some business benefits.


The Chain Reaction of Perks In an indirect way, an investment in volunteering is actually an investment in your company. Why? Because it positively


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