It’s hard to get sick of listening to music on the subway, or catching a nap on your ferry ride home each day. But those hours add up. The average American commute (all modes of transportation) is 200 hours per year, or about 9 full days.
Want to provide better benefits to your employees and candidates — and not break the bank?
Stay away from booking those “trust falls on retreats.” Instead, give them something they will benefit from every day.
You know you have to offer the best benefits to attract and retain quality employees for your business. And you know one way to do that is to offer excellent commuter benefits to your employees.
Since your organization is unique, however, your commuter benefits program will be too. To make the process as easy as possible, it’s best to work with a trusted and reliable provider.
Select the right provider and they’ll help you find a plan that’s simple for you to administer and one that will make the most sense for your employees’ transportation habits.
To help you get started, here are 5 key questions to ask when you start researching benefit providers.
Have you ever wanted to save the environment? Depending on your situation, there’s several ways your commute could have a positive impact. Transportation creates an incredibly large carbon footprint. But small actions by large groups of people can produce big results.
Edenred Commuter Benefit Solutions has been a long-time champion of commuter options. HR 1, more commonly referred to as tax reform made several changes to the transportation fringe benefit.
The legislation maintained the parking and transit tax benefits for individuals, however, the legislation made it more expensive for non-profits and universities to offer transportation fringe benefits.
If your company employs 20 or more full time, non-union employees in any of the five boroughs of New York City, offering a pretax transit benefit is the law. And it’s been a little over two years since “Local Law 53”, New York City’s Commuter Benefits Law, went into effect.
But, it’s not too late to comply with this transit ordinance and avoid any penalty that can hurt your company’s budget. In this article we answered the most frequently asked questions about complying with the NYC Transit Ordinance.
Saving money every day with commuter benefits and time well spent on the commute make it easier to start the day fresh and focused. Still, each day brings its own set of challenges, successes, and setbacks that can cause wear and tear in the motivation department.
How to keep employees motivated is an ongoing conversation but here are some tips that can inspire a new way of doing things. Take a look!
Winter is finally behind us. Now it’s all about warmer weather, greener trees, lighter clothes, and longer days. It also means making changes to your home’s energy use, which could affect your energy bills.
Professional networking site, LinkedIn, recently gathered data to compare employee turnover rates by industry, such as Retail & Consumer Products, Media & Entertainment, and Financial Services & Insurance and ranked them by employee longevity.
Topping the list with the highest rate, despite legendary perks such as nap pods, free meals and snacks, and unlimited time off, is the tech industry, still a competitive job market with lots of competition.
Taking a closer look at the data within the tech industry, the San Francisco Business Times, reported on which tech companies in this highly competitive job market, were succeeding in retaining employees, and as we may all agree, is vital to long-term growth and success.