{"id":960,"date":"2018-01-02T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/?p=960"},"modified":"2018-06-14T10:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T10:33:44","slug":"helping-employees-with-budget-shocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/2018\/01\/02\/helping-employees-with-budget-shocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping employees with budget shocks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4847\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/mywealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/06\/shutterstock_578775499-large-web.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_578775499 - large web\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HR Grapevine, asks Jonathan Watts-Lay, Director, WEALTH at work about the steps employers could take to help their staff cope with the increased cost of rail tickets. He responds; \u201cMany people don\u2019t have an alternative to taking the train, so it is an emotive issue. But they can also experience budget shocks in other areas such as council tax, bills or their mortgage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He suggests that employers offer\u00a0money\u00a0managing workshops to help employees cope with such events. \u201cWe\u2019ve been asked a lot more about budgeting and money management. As an employer, you can help your staff to see areas that they could save money in \u2013 for example, by shopping around you can usually save money on your car insurance or utility bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile employers can help, at the end of the day it is up to the employee themselves to make the necessary changes,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article in HR Director, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrgrapevine.com\/content\/article\/news-2018-01-02-rail-fare-hikes-helping-employees-cope\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HR Grapevine, asks Jonathan Watts-Lay, Director, WEALTH at work about the steps employers could take to help their staff cope with the increased cost of rail tickets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/jpm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}