How do we track employee volunteering hours across multiple locations?

Multi-site employers run into the same wall whenever they try to report on employee volunteering. Every location tracks it differently, if at all.

One office keeps a local spreadsheet. Another relies on people emailing HR. A third has an enthusiastic team lead with a notebook. And several do nothing, because no one told them to.

When the CSR team needs a total (hours contributed, people involved, causes supported) for the annual report, it becomes a quarterly scramble. Begging each site for its data and trying to normalise wildly inconsistent records.

The cost is not only the reporting headache. Engagement data that could be genuinely motivating, like showing teams the collective impact they have made or recognising the most active sites, sits unused because it is never assembled in time to matter.

And under CSRD, employee-related social data (ESRS S1) is moving from nice-to-have to reportable. That raises the stakes on getting it consistent.

The teams that solve this give every employee one place to log hours against pre-approved activities. Participation and impact then roll up automatically across all sites, in a single comparable view.

The reporting stops being a scramble. And the data becomes something the company can act on, rather than just archive.