Get-Out-the-Vote Workplace Programs

The idea is to encourage employees to take advantage of their freedom to vote, not to sway how they vote. Focus on nonpartisan activities and civic engagement. For example, encourage employees to complete a voting plan. A voting plan identifies the how, when and where a person will vote. People who have a voting plan in place prior to election day are much more likely to cast a ballot than those who do not have a plan.

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Encouraging Employees to Get Out and Vote
Trinet | May 2024

Get-Out-the-Vote Workplace Programs
In efforts to encourage employees to vote, Nora Gilbert, director of partnerships at Vote.org, said employers should focus on participation over politics. And, she said, "even small efforts are meaningful."

Here are 10 ways businesses are boosting voter participation among their employees:

** Distributing information about how, where and when to vote, along with tools to register and request a ballot online.
** Hosting a voter registration event or voting celebration.
** Adopting flexible schedules with no meetings on Election Day.
** Providing paid hours to vote, whether on Election Day or before it for early voting.
** Allowing employees use of printers for absentee ballot applications, as well as paying postage.
** Sending e-mails to remind employees to vote.
** Encouraging employees to offer child care, elder care or rides to the polls for others in their communities to vote on Election Day.
** Giving paid time off for employees to train as poll workers.
** Reducing store hours on Election Day to ensure that employees can vote in person.
** Closing entirely on Election Day, a practice started by Patagonia in 2016.

"Patagonia co-founded the Time to Vote movement because we believe no worker should have to choose between earning a paycheck and voting, and we believe the business community has the power to contribute to the culture shift needed to increase voter participation in our country's elections," said Corley Kenna, a spokesperson for Patagonia.
Source: 10 Ways to Help Employees Vote

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Business depends on our democratic system to flourish, and business leaders know that key stakeholders really care, particularly employees. They have strong feelings, they really care about their organizations engaging, leaning in, not sort of sitting on the sidelines or sitting on their hands during consequential time. 
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