Your CPA firm is organizing a one-day-long CSR activity using company time such as cleaning up a dirty road or picking up trash on the beach. A colleague tells you: “This is so stupid. I already have so much unfinished work. Now to take a whole day away from work? Come on!

I don’t mind CSR. If the company is serious about CSR, why doesn’t it donate one day of my earnings, which I am sure will be more than the value I can generate by cleaning up the road or picking up trash? With that money, they can hire someone like a professional cleaner to do a better job than I would.” What are you going to say to her? (Your colleague makes $146,000 a year or $400 per day.)