Analysis

July 20, 2022

Startup employees are using company benefits to pay for electricity

As cost of living increases, employees are using company benefits to cover essential purchases


Ally Fekaiki

As inflation and the cost of living continues to surge, employees are increasingly relying on company benefits to cover part of their living costs.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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