I'm not sure if anyone else has encountered this. I work in corporate healthcare and every year we have to put in goals for the year. These goals are essentially what's used in our yearly review and if/how well we did on our goals, correlates to our annual raise. This year someone up the chain has decided that attending a volunteer event and representing our corporation is a mandatory goal. We get 16 hours of volunteer paid time off. The problem though, is that I work remotely in an entirely different state. So, I will have to figure out a volunteer opportunity and get it approved through corporate just to be eligible for my raise next year. I guess it seems uncharitable that I don't want to have to do this, but I really don't want to have to go interact with a bunch of people during a pandemic just to provide publicity for my company. My raises should be based off of my actual job performance. I can't help but think this is a way to make it “our fault” when they give lower raises next year.