1©SHRM 2008 SHRM Poll: May 6, 2008

Assistance Organizations Are Offering to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices in 2008

  Yes No Plan to

Raising mileage reimbursement to IRS cap 42% 55% 3%

Offering flexible work schedule (e.g. compressed work schedule, flex-time, etc.)

26% 70% 4%

Offering telecommuting 18% 79% 3%

Offering public transportation discounts 14% 83% 3%

Rewarding employees with gas card 14% 79% 7%

Providing information on alternative ways to get to the office (e.g. information on bus routes, finding shorter paths to the office, etc.)

13% 83% 4%

Organizing carpools 12% 83% 5%

n=545

2©SHRM 2008 SHRM Poll: May 6, 2008

Assistance Organizations Are Offering to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices in 2008 (cont’d)

  Yes No Plan to

Offering IRS Section 132 transportation accounts - Pretax transportation reimbursement accounts

11% 87% 2%

Offering priority parking to employees that carpool

7% 91% 2%

Offering to help new executive hires find housing closer to the office

6% 93% 1%

Offering to help new non-executive hires find housing closer to the office

4% 95% 1%

Offering commuter stipend for long commute to the office

2% 97% 1%

Offering employees cost of living raises as a direct result of gas prices

2% 96% 2%

Offering monetary incentive to employees to buy hybrid cars

1% 98% 0%

3©SHRM 2008 SHRM Poll: May 6, 2008

Assistance Organizations Are Offering to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices (by Year)

  2008(n=550)

2007(n=489)

2006(380)

2005(456)

Raising mileage reimbursement to IRS cap

42% 13% 21% 8%

Offering telecommuting 18% 4% 7% 6%

Offering public transportation discounts

14% 6% 8% 7%

Rewarding employees with gas card 14% 6%

Organizing carpools 12% 6% 7% 5%

Offering monetary incentive to employees to buy hybrid cars

1% 1% 0% 0%

Note: Blank cells indicate option was not available that year. Multiple response options were allowed in the 2005 -2007 surveys)Only options where data from multiple years are available where included.

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Assistance Organizations Are Offering to Help Employees Deal With High Gas Prices in 2008 (open-ended responses)

• Trying to recruit closer to the office

• Advance gas money prior to travel as opposed to post travel reimbursement

• If an employee is dispatched to another site mid-shift we pay gas.

• Allowing employee to transfer to offices closer to their homes.

• Car pool monthly awards

• Partnering with local hotel for discounted pricing for employees with long commutes.

• We offer employees a commuter benefits program which entitles them to $75 per month to take public transportation.

• Reviewing establishing train shuttle service

• Employees who are responsible for a very large territory are given company cars with gas cards

• Re-routing sales force to make areas more compact, thus reducing the amount of miles they need to travel in order to get their customer accounts serviced.

5©SHRM 2008 SHRM Poll: May 6, 2008

Methodology

• Response rate = 20%• Sample comprised of 553 randomly selected

HR professionals from SHRM’s membership.

• Margin of error is +/- 5%.• Survey fielded the week of May 6, 2008