Thanks for your thoughts. The issue is, companies are ALREADY asking people to volunteer for various things, and are ALREADY providing food and small gifts. Recording the amount received for the type of work and enabling it to be a tangible credential is actually a step up - normally, this is not a formal credential. However, formalizing the credentialing gives the smaller projects and the people working on them more of a chance to be picked up by the company, by increasing their visibility.

For example, I have continued to work for Google despite failing to find a suitable team and needing to officially leave the company. So, unofficially, I am on a team that is right now me - Organic Recruitment. Without the free food and small gifts, I would be completely unrequited. With them, I earned the equivalent of $100/year pre-COVID pandemic, which is only 1 order of magnitude below what a temporary contractor receives. I have no way to express my continued engagement without a framework such as Organic Recruitment's. And during the pandemic, I have gone unrequited. In effect, this is a measure of the impact of the pandemic on organic collaboration, which the company doesn't seem to be using.