1. May 2009 SHRM Poll - Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices
2. Summary: Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices in May 2009 2 Top strategies and programs currently in place: Raising mileage reimbursement to IRS cap = 61% Offering flexible work schedule (e.g., compressed work schedule, flextime) = 48% Offering telecommuting = 35% Providing information on alternative ways to get to the office (e.g., information on bus routes, finding shorter paths to the office) = 26% Organizing carpools and offering public transportation discounts = 25%
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4. Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices:May 2009 Compared With September 2008 and May 2008 (cont’d) 4 Note: Blank cells indicate option was not provided during data collection *Organizations were also asked if they had plans to offer the types of assistance listed in the question. Overall most organizations that did not offer assistance as of May 2009 did not have plans to do so.
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7. Offering public transportation discounts: West (47%) > Midwest (23%), South (9%)Note: Small = 1-99 employees, Medium = 100-499 employees, Large = 500 or more employees
13. Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices in May 2009 Response rate = 16% Sample comprised of 450 randomly selected HR professionals from SHRM’s membership. Margin of error = +/- 5%. Survey fielded the week of May 5, 2009. 12 Methodology
