American workers expect their employers to help them with the high cost of getting to work, a survey finds. A special edition of the ORC Ouch Point survey from Opinion Research Corp. found that 84 percent of the U.S. workforce expects employers to take measures to help offset the rising cost of gas.
According to the survey, they expect employers to:
Institute or expand car pooling programs (61 percent).
Provide incentives for the use of mass transit (51 percent).
Permit working from home (51 percent).
Provide a gasoline allowance to cover additional commuting costs (42 percent).
When asked what their employers had actually done to defray the cost of commuting, only 35 percent were able to point to an action taken. The most common measures implemented by employers were:
New or expanded car pooling programs (18 percent).
Permission to work from home (18 percent).
Incentives for mass transit use (12 percent).
Gasoline allowances (11 percent).
The survey also found that 11 percent of respondents are now considering leaving their jobs as a result of rising gas costs, suggesting that employers should take heed of employees' expectations.
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