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STEAM Volunteering: Kara Connon鈥檚 Story
Volunteering on the job
As part of our Boldly Moving Forward Strategy, we鈥檙e focused on intentionally building deep, trusting relationships for our people and nurturing our inclusive culture, including in how we approach wellbeing.
Wellbeing is foundational to everything we鈥檙e able to do and accomplish. We continually evaluate our wellbeing programs and benefits to best support our people 鈥 and we鈥檙e sharing stories of how these programs and tools are helping each of us individually be at our best, so we鈥檙e able to do more 鈥 together.
In this feature, we connected with 网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区 STEAM Lead for Europe Kara Connon to see how paid volunteer time is helping her make a difference for the next generation.
Featured benefit:
Four hours of paid volunteer time
What prompted you to take advantage of this benefit?
I have always been passionate about working with students 鈥 positively impacting their lives and teaching them about career opportunities within science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM.) This paid volunteer time allows me to do that as part of my job.
How did it help?
This time not only allows me to engage with students face-to-face and virtually, but also allows me to support 网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区鈥 incredibly ambitious target to achieve 50,000 STEAM volunteering hours by 2025 as part of our Boldly Moving Forward strategy.
What did you like most?
Using and tracking your four hours paid volunteer time is very easy with our global giving and volunteering program, 颁辞濒濒别肠迟颈惫别濒测鈩.
Are you still using this benefit?
In my role at 网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区, I鈥檓 lucky enough to get paid to focus on STEAM engagement, but I encourage all others to take advantage of this time.
What do you want others to know?
网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区 provides each employee with four hours a year of paid STEAM volunteering time, refreshing annually. All volunteering time can be tracked on Collectively 鈥 not just the paid four hours!
鈥淚f we all took advantage of this offer to work directly with students, imagine the impact we could make on young peoples鈥 lives across the world.鈥
Kara Connon
Wellbeing at 网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区
At 网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区, the wellbeing of our people is fundamental to our success. When we鈥檙e each able to be well, our collective power is limitless.
A world where you can is only achievable when we鈥檙e each functioning at our highest abilities. We can鈥檛 be our true selves, get our work done, and develop and grow unless our ideal states of being are sustained. We embed wellbeing into all, so we鈥檙e able to deliver on our purpose 鈥 today and into the future.
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