Even in a Pandemic, Avanade Enables Volunteer-Minded Employees to Help the Community
Among the benefits offered by Seattle-based global IT consulting and services provider Avanade (an i4cp member), to its employees is eight paid hours to volunteer in the community each year.
The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus has obviously curtailed employees’ ability to get out into their communities to carry out philanthropic efforts in meaningful ways. But it hasn’t stopped them altogether, and Avanade is encouraging its 30,000+ workforce—to the extent that they can—to use their volunteer hours to help those most affected by the pandemic.
Additionally, Avanade has temporarily removed the annual eight-hour cap on paid volunteer hours and has expanded the scope of its corporate volunteerism beyond 501 (c)(3) and non-governmental organizations. This allows employees to simply do good in their communities in any ways they can, such as doing the grocery shopping for an elderly or immune-compromised neighbor, for example.
Joe Jamrog is a longtime researcher at i4cp, having worked at the company for over 20 years in a variety of capacities. Joe's #1 priority is working with members of i4cp's communities to help them with their organizational research needs by curating resources, data, and other materials to help address critical questions and challenges.
Joe also manages all i4cp research surveys and is responsible for creating and perfecting the survey instruments used to collect the tens of thousands of data points the i4cp research team uses to analyze and discover the best and next practices of high-performance organizations. He subsequently uses Tableau and other tools to make that data accessible to both the research team and i4cp members.