Deloitte Employees Volunteer at Stamford Animal Shelter

Deloitte is a financial firm whose services typically focus on audits, consulting, financial advisory, risk management and taxes. However, on Friday, June 8, 2012, the company's Stamford employees put aside the paper pushing and instead picked up some shovels and gardening gloves.

While the company's website touted they'd be back soon as employees were busy volunteering for its 12th annual IMPACT Day, the Stamford Animal Care & Control Center was busy with bodies all over the place, digging, gardening and even filing!

"Deloitte has a culture of giving back to the community in which its employees live and work," said Nick Paulish, Director at Deloitte Consulting. "We have approximatley 51,000 emplyees and a vast majority of them are out participating in some kind of service for the community today."

Laurie Hollywood, director of the Stamford Animal Shelter was thrilled at having the group there, and that was part of the reason Paulish said he chose to come back to the shelter. Employees are given the option of choosing what type of activity they'd like to participate in and Paulish said, for him, it was an easy choice.

"Everyone finds something special to them," he said. "I was here a couple of years of ago. You could see how bad the place needed some arms and legs, how much they needed to have done and how appreciative they were. It just looked so different at 3 p.m. than it did at 8 a.m. when we'd arrived. And it's important to me that this is a no-kill shelter, that they're always looking for good homes for the animals."