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Marks & Spencer invites staff to air financial concerns on interactive television chat show

Marks & Spencer has launched an interactive online television chat show to provide employees with financial advice and information.

The show was called Make Your M&S Shares Work for You and 400 managers from the retailer were given a password to a protected area of the provider's website, FinanceExplained.tv, in order to access it.

The programme answered questions on tax, how to minimise liabilities, financial planning and other areas of financial concern facing employees.

The initiative was a joint venture between FinanceExplained.tv and Killick & Co Employee Services to come up with an original communication tool.

It follows research from FinanceExplained.tv showing less than half (45%) of staff in the UK think their employer communicates effectively with them.