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SHRM Poll - Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices

SHRM Poll - Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices. May 2009. Summary: Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices in May 2009. Top strategies and programs currently in place :

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SHRM Poll - Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices

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  1. SHRM Poll - Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices May 2009

  2. Summary: Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices in May 2009 • 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%

  3. Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices:May 2009 Compared With September 2008 and May 2008 • Between September 2008 and May 2009, there were marked decreases in the percentage of organizations that provided various types of assistance to help employees deal with climbing gas prices. Continued on next slide

  4. Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices:May 2009 Compared With September 2008 and May 2008 (cont’d) 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.

  5. A Comparison by Year: Select Types of Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices: 2005–2009 • Since 2005, organizations have taken significant steps to provide certain types of assistance to help employees deal with the challenge of high gas prices. Note: Blank cells indicate option was not provided during data collection. Multiple response options were allowed in the 2005 -2007 surveys. Only options where data from multiple years were available are included in the table.

  6. Assistance Organizations Offered to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices in May 2009 Comparison by Organizational Size • Offering flexible work schedule: Large (63%) > small (38%) • Offering priority parking to employees that carpool: Large (30%) > small (5%), medium (12%) • Offering public transportation discounts: Large (42%) > small (16%), medium (19%) • Organizing carpools: Large (48%) > small (9%) Comparison by Organizational Region • Offering telecommuting: West (50%) > Midwest (20%) • Offering public transportation discounts: West (47%) > Midwest (23%), South (9%) Note: Small = 1-99 employees, Medium = 100-499 employees, Large = 500 or more employees

  7. Organization Staff Size n = 442

  8. Organization Sector n = 448

  9. Organization Region n = 432

  10. Organizational Industry (n = 450) Note: Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.

  11. Organizational Industry (cont.) Note: (n = 450) Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.

  12. Assistance Organizations Offer to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices in May 2009 Methodology • 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.

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