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04 Jun 2008 HEADLINE


Carolina Companies Ask Employees to Give Cars a Rest



Source: News Observer
Class: SYNDICATED NEWS

SYNOPSIS: Helping workers save fuel, money is one way to retain staff, companies find.

Good walking shoes and a fast bike are the choices for many as they deal with rising gas prices.
But for some folks, those are just not options for getting to work or -- if they're in sales -- doing their jobs. Many companies are trying to help.

Most are using incentives -- telecommuting, gas card bonuses and the like -- rather than pay increases, according to a national survey by the Society for Human Resource Management. The most common tactic nationally, according to the survey, was to raise mileage reimbursement to the IRS maximum, 50.5 cents a mile. That fits with what we found with our informal survey of Triangle employers.

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