My employer runs an annual "Cycle to Work Competition", to encourage commuting by bike company wide. Thirteen locations all logging individual and group times, distances and volume of trips. This has turned by 2 mile gentle commute into a 20 mile daily race.
So, does your workplace do anything similar or would you be in a position to start one? More bikes on the road is always a good thing!
Posted Apr 2, 2012, 8:44 PM UTC
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My employer is quite OK with me riding my bike to work. I work at Walmart... they let me keep it in the break room. Bonus of being a dependable worker is that they do let me handle things my own way sometimes :3
Also work at Walmart. Unfortunately, I have my doubts that my managers would be okay with it.
Well, ask them. Thing is, our store has nothing "proper" to lock to, so my options are rather limited. I would actually really appreciate if walmart would offer incentives for bike riding (in line with their stated "green" goals). Federal government, too. I have over 100 miles a month commuting, if they gave me a bit of a tax break for that... :3
Only said it would be good and throw out some numbers, that's it.
I work at a doctors office as administration. No Bike Rack! Cant keep it in break room. Must keep it u locked to a sign in the parking lot. I still bike though...totally worth it in gas. Its 10 miles each way. thats 100 miles at the end of the work week! unless it rains....
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We participate in the Global Corporate Challenge (subsidised entry fees) which allows logging of cycling kilometres. Closest thing for us.
I wish my work had a place where I could lock my bike.
No.
Public health provider of over 100 000 employees. Crazy, huh?
Well... I got laid off two days ago (funding ran dry in my lab) but my oh so recent employer, a very large university, does a lot to encourage biking to work. I was at a satellite research-only complex with a garaged bike rack, two bike lockers as well as a couple locker rooms with showers. We also had anual ride-in-the-rain (Seattle for ya) competitions to see which team would put in more miles while it was pissing on us outside. There was no real sense of competition going on but hell...they tried.
I work in an office buidling, with a large contingent of cyclists - about 20% of the workers cycle regularly. My employer is great about cycling. We had too many bikes parked in the offices, so a proper bike cage was built in the car park!
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We have this; http://www.nationalefietsprojecten.nl/
My company has regular weight loss challenges and gives out really good prizes for winners. Xbox, iPads, TVs, stuff people actually want. We have 2 showers and can keep our bikes in our office. Also the VP of engineering used to ride professionally so he has some influence.
My employer encourages biking, bike racks at every entrance, and a covered bike lockup in the parking garage right next to the security hut.
There's no competition here, but we do have a program where, if you bike to work over 50% of the calendar work days in a month, the company will reimburse you $20 for bike repair/maintenance.
I participate in the program, but every cyclist I've talked to here says it's not worth it. The reason being that one persons commute might be 1 mile and another persons might be 20 miles. So measuring participation by days biked doesn't cut it. And even our local HR says "how do we really know the person has ridden in that often at all?"
So it's a nod towards cycling, but that's about it.
Well here is my bike locked to a railing under a stair well at work, better than nothing!
My employer encourages biking. But that might be because I work in a bike shop.