Is your employer doing enough to ease your pain at the pump? According to a recent survey reported in Workforce. Com, 61 percent of survey participants reported having multiple jobs to pay bills. Fifty-nine percent are driving less during off work hours, and 69 percent are cutting back on non-essential items.

Eighty percent of the 1,106 adult full and part-time workers in the survey reported that their employers provided no financial or other benefits to help them through the high-cost of gasoline.

While the media often reports stories about companies introducing telecommuting as a way to help employees, only about eight percent of the nation's employers actually have such a program.

The survey was conducted by the Workforce Institute and is called "Working in America: Drivers Cope with Soaring Gas Prices." The nationwide survey is scheduled to be released August 20.

Question

Should employers do more to help their employees cope with high gas prices?
Send your answers to jgiunta@jjc.edu. We'll report the results to see what you think.

To read more about this story, visit http://www.workforce.com/section/00/article/25/70/91.php.

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