Most companies look at national holidays as simply a paid or unpaid day off for their employees – and also as top sales day, if you're a retailer and it's New Year's, for instance.
But as we noted in our Success Story on them, 2008 Top Small Workplace The Redwoods Group (TRG) is not like most companies. Two things that make them unique, our judging panel concluded, was their significant efforts to decrease risk for their insurance industry clients, as well as their almost unheard-of commitment to funding nonprofits with approximately 50% of their pre-tax profits.
TRG is also unique when it comes to their approach to national holidays and employee engagement/team building. As employee MJ Pearle shared with us today,
Each year, TRG holds a special Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. This year we had a week of activities. One activity featured performances by our Redwoods Choir (organized for the first time for this event). There was some pretty amazing music from a bunch of insurance folks! We also sent a group of employees to the opening of the new International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, NC (a 45-minute drive from our office), and afterward they reported on the experience to their colleagues.
Here's one of several videos of their choir TRG posted on YouTube – in this case, singing "Oh Happy Day":
Does your company do anything special on or around national holidays that emphasizes or leverages your unique workplace culture?
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