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Monday 27th October - Flexible Working and Travel Plans
The first themed day of Commute Smart Week focused on travel planning, and our partner for this day was ACT TravelWise.
Working with Transport for London, Work Wise UK has produced a Guide to Smarter Working, which provides comprehensive insight and practical advice on how to implement smarter working practices. For a copy of this guide click HERE Through Workplace Travel Plans, thousands of employers across the UK are helping their staff get to work in a better way and in the process are saving time and money whilst improving the health and wellbeing of their staff. This smarter commuting is becoming an increasingly important way to optimize the existing transport infrastructure, to make staff aware of alternative modes of transport, and to reduce the amount and stress of commuting. ACT TravelWise is at the forefront of making it easier for people to get about, travel more sustainably and tackle the problems associated with transport and travel - congestion, pollution, carbon emissions and health. ACT promotes many alternatives to the usual one person per car approach such as remote working, public transport, cycling and walking. Not only that, but innovative new techniques such as personalised travel planning, car sharing and car clubs. With a Workplace Travel Plan, hidden costs such as parking provision, staff retention and employee health issues can be tackled as well as more immediate costs such as mileage payments. A Travel Plan can help improve staff health as well as increase the attractiveness of a workplace to prospective employees. Workplace Travel Plans can make an employment site more accessible, especially for pedestrians, cyclists and those travelling on public transport. Surveys consistently show that a large proportion of staff want their employers to help them travel in a more sustainable way, but many barriers stand in their way. Workplace Travel Plans can help bring down those barriers. |