Last week was the beginning when I got an email about the giving season, it had an option to donate a portion of my salary for X amount of weeks to “The giving fund” which had a non specified charity.
Today another corporate email went out asking for banked time as donations in payouts to the giving fund, which still has no obvious cause or destonation for the funds.
That's just at my current employer, but everyone I've ever worked has asked for donations during the holiday season. I'm not against giving to charity, but if I do I'll just do it directly.