Cost of living guide: How firms are helping their staff

By Carl Brown2022-11-30T07:00:00

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As inflation soars, many construction companies and housebuilders are looking at how they can support their staff with extra pay, support or other benefits. Here is a guide to what individual firms are doing

We are, it hardly needs to be said, living through the most turbulent times that most of us can remember.

If the covid-19 pandemic had not caused enough widespread fear, disruption and trauma, we are now in the grips of another foe – which, while not as immediately deadly, nevertheless has the capacity to cause untold misery: rampant inflation.

First we saw supply chain shortages as the economy came racing out of the pandemic-indued slowdown and firms struggled to keep up with demand. Then, Vladmir Putin’s war in Ukraine disrupted energy supplies and sent prices rocketing ever further northwards

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