Why Employers want their employees to cycle to work

Why provide cycling facilities for employees?

A few Visionary Reasons:
- Bicycles are kind to the environment.
- They are quiet and pollution-free.
- Cycling helps create safer, more neighbourly communities.
- Cycling is part of the solution to our traffic congestion problems.

And ‘self-interest’ - Employers have a lot to gain from cycling:
- Reduce the need for car parking. The demand for spaces at many company car parks has outstripped supply leading to on road parking creating obstruction for delivery vehicles. More spaces cost money and take space that could be used for building extensions or placing temporary storage units.
- The number of car spaces may affect the rateable value
- It costs around £2,000 to construct, maintain and administer a single car parking bay. That same £2,000 could park at least 20 bikes
- Regular cyclists tend to be fitter and healthier than non-cyclists
- This contributes towards greater productivity and lower rates of absenteeism due to illness.
- Bikes are nimble vehicles, able to squeeze past the queues and the road-works. So cyclists tend to be more punctual employees.
- People want to cycle. So why hold them back? Give cyclists the facilities and the support that they deserve and you get a happier and more motivated workforce.
- Be seen to be green.
- Being a cycle-friendly employer is a way of winning valuable publicity at relatively little cost – sign up to the http://www.cycletoworkguarantee.org.uk/ here for some national publicity
- Impress your local authority. Increasingly, planning consent comes with strings attached - employers must develop Travel Plans. If you’re a cycle-friendly employer you’re well on the way to having a credible plan.
- Removing the need to use a car or public transport to get to work is a cost saving for employees – in effect a pay rise
- It is cheaper to offer Cycle Facilities than to provide subsidised gym membership

Why do Employers want their employees to cycle to work - click on the link http://www.cyclefriendlyemployers.org.uk/index.php