Release Date: 2006-10-26
Original Link: http://presszoom.com/story_120090.html
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has named IBM as one of Top 20 Best Workplaces for Commuters among Fortune 500 companies. Twenty-two IBM locations qualified for the award.
(PressZoom.com) - Best Workplaces for Commuters are required to offer at least one of the following at each qualifying work site: employer-paid tax-free transit passes or vanpool benefits (a minimum subsidy of $30/month), telework or parking cash out (which means a business pays employees the value of their parking places if they agree not to drive their cars to work). Employers also agree to offer Emergency Ride Home and three or more additional commuter benefits.
Some of the commuter benefits IBM provides to its employees include: commuter information kiosks, transportation coordinators, mobility stations, full service cafeterias, ATM machines, car rental services (pick-up/drop-off), and credit union drop boxes. The company also has an extensive work-at-home program that allows employees work office to be in their home and a mobile employee program that enables employees to work from home a designated number of days each week. More than a third of IBM’s global work force (over 100,000 employees) participates in one of these programs.
In the United States, IBM’s work-at-home program has conserved more than eight million gallons of fuel and avoided more than 68,000 tons of CO2 emissions in 2006.
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Best Workplaces for Commuters
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