I work with IT in Sweden. Recently, my employer acquired an American company from Florida. Many of those American employees were affected by Hurricane Ian.
Today we got request from the American company's CEO to donate to those colleagues via Gofundme, with has been set up by the American company. It's not clear what the money is supposed to be used for other than “aid”.
My question is, is this a common thing in America? Are workers expected to provide financial aid to each other? Doesn't the government do anything for its citizens at all?
Also, this is not a small company, they should be able to provide quite a lot of “aid” on their own..
I suspect this may be a difference in company culture, but I'd just wanted to know what the deal is.