Social responsibility is a big deal for the company I work for. In my six months with the company. there have already been a number of activities held for the cause.
Aside from our outreach club, the following have been observed/held by the company:
Cancer-awareness month (Passionately Pink for the Cure). We had pizza (kinda ironic?) day on that day (some time in October) where we were asked to wear pink (most did.. of course I did!) and where we made some donations for a certain cancer research institute.
Help for the holidays. Half of the office went on a trip to Muntinlupa to give a program for the inmates' children and to donate funds for their scholarship. Employees who went there were treated to a dinner at Dad's so I guess that served as our Christmas party. We later ended up donating our Christmas party funds for the children's scholarships. By the way, none in our team went to Muntinlupa. We just worked in the office all day (What's new?:P )
The photo was taken from that event and it was actually among the finalists in the first ever American Chamber of the Philippines Corporate Social Responsibility Photo Exhibit held on April 27 at Glorietta. We didn't win, but the photo was one of the 44 finalists from 200 entries. Congrats!
Environment Day. Just recently, we celebrated Earth Day with some activities. They showed Planet Earth in the pantry all day, and some earth-friendly goodies were raffled off.
10K-A-Day. To promote employee's well-being, we're having this 10K program where participants should try to walk 10, 000 steps a day as measured by a pedometer. Those who walk the most during the program will be rewarded. Cool, huh?
Swine flu. With the swine flu buzz going around, the company has distributed hand sanitizers and will be distributing gauze masks.. Okay, yes, the company does care about us! :)
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Other cool stuff in the office:
Aside from our outreach club, the following have been observed/held by the company:
Cancer-awareness month (Passionately Pink for the Cure). We had pizza (kinda ironic?) day on that day (some time in October) where we were asked to wear pink (most did.. of course I did!) and where we made some donations for a certain cancer research institute.
Help for the holidays. Half of the office went on a trip to Muntinlupa to give a program for the inmates' children and to donate funds for their scholarship. Employees who went there were treated to a dinner at Dad's so I guess that served as our Christmas party. We later ended up donating our Christmas party funds for the children's scholarships. By the way, none in our team went to Muntinlupa. We just worked in the office all day (What's new?:P )
The photo was taken from that event and it was actually among the finalists in the first ever American Chamber of the Philippines Corporate Social Responsibility Photo Exhibit held on April 27 at Glorietta. We didn't win, but the photo was one of the 44 finalists from 200 entries. Congrats!
Environment Day. Just recently, we celebrated Earth Day with some activities. They showed Planet Earth in the pantry all day, and some earth-friendly goodies were raffled off.
10K-A-Day. To promote employee's well-being, we're having this 10K program where participants should try to walk 10, 000 steps a day as measured by a pedometer. Those who walk the most during the program will be rewarded. Cool, huh?
Swine flu. With the swine flu buzz going around, the company has distributed hand sanitizers and will be distributing gauze masks.. Okay, yes, the company does care about us! :)
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Other cool stuff in the office:
- We can eat Milo in the pantry.
- We have a shower room. Not that I would ever take a shower there.It's just cool to have a nice, clean rest room all to yourself whenever you need it.
- My pedestal's brimming with tissue paper! Aside from the tissue paper in the pantry and rest rooms, we get our personal supply of tissue paper every month. I'm forced to bring some home; otherwise, my cube might start to look like a tissue stall!
- Speaking of supplies, request and it shall be granted! No need to wait for a long time :)
- We have an intranet site that's like Friendster or Facebook where they say we can also blog. Duhh... as if I would ever blog there, but it's cool anyway :)
- We can request for virtual machines if we need a server to install the applications we are documenting. And it's set up in just a day, with IT doing the maintenance. How cool is that?
- We have all these activities, but it's never mandatory to join.
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