Symetra's Enfield Employees Give Back During Symetra Week of Service

Wearing bright blue T-shirts featuring Symetra’s distinctive ‘Swift to Serve’ volunteer logo, 77 employees from the company’s Enfield office took a break from their workday last week to give back to the community — contributing 226 volunteer hours to several local nonprofit organizations as part of the ninth-annual Symetra Week of Service (June 12–16 ).

Teams of volunteers helped clean, organize and stock shelves at Enfield Food Shelf, prune and weed at Elizabeth Park Conservancy, and tackle outdoor gardening tasks at Dakin Humane Society. Employees unable to participate in off-site projects gathered in the company’s conference rooms throughout the week to help make nearly 30 blankets to donate to the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.

“Symetra Week of Service is both a reflection of our employees’ volunteer spirit and a genuine expression of our ‘Swift to Serve’ core value,” said Symetra CFO Margaret Meister, who was among the volunteers participating in the week’s projects. “As a company, Symetra is committed to making a positive impact in our communities. As individuals, our employees are empowered to give back to the causes and organizations that matter to them personally through hands-on service opportunities like this much-anticipated annual program.”

Symetra Week of Service began in 2009 with 130 employees in the company’s Bellevue, Washington headquarters volunteering at seven area projects. For 2017’s Week of Service, nearly 700 Symetra employees volunteered at 82 projects across the country. Since the program’s inception, Symetra employees have contributed nearly 12,000 Week of Service hours.

Symetra provides employee benefits, annuities and life insurance through a national network of benefit consultants, financial institutions, and independent agents and advisors. The Enfield office is home to employees who work in the company’s medical stop-loss and group life and disability income insurance businesses.

To see more of Symetra’s 2017 Week of Service volunteers in action, visit @Symetra, #SymetraCares. To learn about the company’s community programs, visit www.symetra.com/community.