{"id":1615,"date":"2008-06-13T07:25:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/creative-employer-gas-programs\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T06:54:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T11:54:37","slug":"creative-employer-gas-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/creative-employer-gas-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Employer Gas Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/Economy\/story?id=4997009&amp;page=1\">This article from abcnews.com<\/a> discusses different corporate plans to help employees deal with the rapidly increasing gas price.\u00a0 Of all the creative approaches I have read of late, I think this one takes the cake (my bold):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The career search Web site Jobing.com&#8217;s program really helps employees&#8217; wallets. Those who meet certain requirements (such as length of time at the company, a good driving record and completion of a safe driving course) can get their car completely wrapped with the company&#8217;s logo. The reward: 100% of the employee&#8217;s gas is paid for along with a monthly $500 stipend. The company has an approved list of cars that employees can choose to either lease or buy.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Difilippantonio was one of the first employees to get a wrapped car at Jobing.com. He purchased his Jeep Cherokee in October 2003 and paid it off last year using the $500 monthly stipend. <strong>Since the benefit doesn&#8217;t end when the car is paid off, he uses that money on household expenses<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you caught that last sentence.\u00a0 Now that is a clever perk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from abcnews.com discusses different corporate plans to help employees deal with the rapidly increasing gas price.\u00a0 Of all the creative approaches I have read of late, I think this one takes the cake (my bold): The career search Web site Jobing.com&#8217;s program really helps employees&#8217; wallets. Those who meet certain requirements (such as length of time at the company, a good driving record and completion of a safe driving course) can get their car completely wrapped with the company&#8217;s logo. The reward: 100% of the employee&#8217;s gas is paid for along with a monthly $500 stipend. The company has an approved list of cars that employees can choose&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/creative-employer-gas-programs\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,23,5],"tags":[767,770,769,398,768],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-q3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->