Around 5% of businesses with 250 or more employees have offered a one-off cost-of-living payment to their workers in the last three months
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The figure comes from the Office for National Statistics' Business Insights report, which also says the rate was just 1% among smaller firms. It comes despite many businesses struggling with their own rising costs, with 27% saying their main concern is inflation, and 20% saying it is the cost of energy.offered staff £1,000 to help them cope with the rising cost of living.
At Barratt, the payment was for 6,000 staff below senior management level and at Taylor Wimpey it was for workers on salaries under £70,000 - roughly 90% of its workforce.
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