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Leon Gettler
August 24, 2006
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CORPORATE employee volunteering might be booming — more corporations and charities are trying to work together. Trouble is, the two sides don't seem to understand each other and, in some cases, they just don't get on.

A special report has found frustrations and recriminations spilling over from both sectors.

Non-profits claim that corporations are just using volunteering as a cheap team-building exercise. From their side, the corporations say it's not about team-building and that the charities are just chasing handouts.

The report from Sydney's University of Technology researcher Hayley Hext "