Employee Giving Coerced by Corporations Shows Up Politically

In 2013 and 2014, nearly three-fourths of the employees of Western Union made a donation to the Western Union Foundation, helping the company reach a milestone of $100 million in grants to over 2,700 nonprofits in 135 countries since 2001.

Many companies large and small approve of employee charitable giving, and even incentivize it in some cases by matching grants and other instruments for supporting the charitable causes that employees themselves want. As in some workplace-giving campaigns in the past, there's probably some element of corporate peer and supervisor pressure for employees to hit charitable giving goals...