Help provide efficient and sustainable transportation solutions for those who matter most: your employees.
Help provide efficient and sustainable transportation solutions for those who matter most: your employees.
Our staff offers free consulting and an Employer Handbook to help employers address their workers’ commuting needs. We can help you develop sustainable commute policies and customized incentive programs.
Plus, our commuter program allows your employees to drastically reduce the cost of getting to and from work – increasing employee satisfaction. Your company may also be able to benefit from offering a variety of commuter solutions, ranging from carpooling and vanpooling to bicycling and transit.
Telework has never been as relevant as now. As more employees have been forced to telework, many employers do not have adequate policies in place. We can help create customized telework programs and policies that meet the needs of your organization.
If you choose to subsidize an employee’s transit or vanpool fare, those costs are tax deductible as an ordinary business expense. Here is a calculator from Commuter Benefit Solutions (about halfway down the page) to help estimate benefits:
And the information from the IRS:
We can provide information on offering employees incentives to participate in alternative transportation programs, such as the up to $310 monthly stipend for vanpooling or riding transit in 2024. These incentives are available tax-free to the employee and are tax-deductible for the employer. There are companies that specialize in offering these benefits to make it easy for your company and your employees. While Every Commute Counts cannot endorse any particular solution, additional information as well as programs designed to help are:
Chances are if your company already offers benefits through a Benefit Administration Program, the commuter benefit may already be a part of it, or may be added easily, so we also suggest checking with your benefits administrator and/or Human Resources Department.
We can provide training for the member(s) of your staff responsible for addressing employee transportation issues. We’ll show them how to meet the transportation demands of your company’s workforce and keep them current on pertinent transportation tax and legal issues.
Different commuting options can help your employees avoid the headaches of rush hour traffic so they arrive at work relaxed and ready to go! And with growing environmental concerns and increased legislative efforts to reduce air pollution and traffic congestion, future regulations will favor companies who engage in rideshare programs.
Offering a variety of commuter benefits can also:
Additional information and resources are available from BestWorkPlaces.org.
Getting started with Every Commute Counts is easy.
First, we will create a customized application for you to distribute to your company’s workforce.
Next we collect, process, and enter each interested employee into our Every Commute Counts database (we do not share any information with other outside parties). Our database matches carpool/vanpool participants who live in the same general area and/or travel similar routes to work. This will also allow any employee who takes transit, vanpools, carpools, or bikepools to register for our Emergency Ride Home Program.
Finally, participants receive a ridesharing “matchlist.”
We manage the entire process, saving your company time and effort. The participant application process can be integrated into new employee orientation programs and utilized as a way to attract potential employees with transportation barriers. Our Employer Handbook is a great resource to get started.