Commute Solutions What it can do for YOU and for YOUR company' ' 'for FREE

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Commute SolutionsWhat it can do for YOU and for
YOUR company. . .for FREE!
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What IS Commute Solutions?

• FREE Program
• Helps employers and employees
• Three Goals
• Reduce Traffic
• Save Money
• Reduce Air Pollution

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What ARE Commute Solutions?

• RideShare (carpooling and vanpooling)
• Public Transit
• Telecommuting
• Flex Time
• Compressed Work Week
• Biking Walking

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RideShare

• Carpooling
• Employees share rides one or more times per week
• We provide FREE employee matching through River
• Cities Rideshare (RCRide.com)
• We provide FREE presentations and materials
• We provide C.A.R.E. guaranteed ride home program
• Vanpooling
• Employees commute in a shared van
• Free employee matching
• Free presentations and materials

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Public Transit

• VIA offers many options for employers
• Monthly Bus Passes are only 30
• Companies can offer discounts or reimbursement
  for bus pass costs for their employees
• Or, companies can offer
• reimbursement for bus costs
• during Air Quality Health Alerts

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Telecommuting

• Employees work at alternate work location
• One or more days per week
• NO commute time or costs
• Office Sharing Parking Sharing
• Incredible employee retention rate
• Well set up the program with you

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Flex Time

• Flexible work hours schedule
• Mild 730 - 430 or 830 to 530
• Extreme as long as the work gets done. . .
• Keeps employees out of traffic
• Employees get more work done in quiet
• Well help set up the program

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Compressed Work Week

• Variation of Flex Time
• Allows 3 day weekends
• Four 10 hour days each week OR
• Nine 9 hour days over two weeks OR
• Four 9 hour days and a half day Friday
• Well help you set up your system

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Biking Walking

• Increased work productivity due to
• Less wake up time
• Stress relief in the evenings
• Employer offers facilities, such as
• Bike racks
• Lockers
• Showers

• Well do FREE matching with Bike Buddies

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What do I get out of it?

• HUGE savings for employees
• Tax Savings for Company Commuter Choice
• Improved employee work quality
• Higher employee satisfaction retention
• More available office parking space
• Better access to diverse labor markets
• Improved Company Image

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Employee Savings

• Driving alone costs about 55 cents per mile
• A 20 mile commute costs 2,772 a year
• Thats 231 a month, not counting parking
• Carpooling is a 50 off sale
• Vanpooling could save even more
• Bus riding could save 2,412

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Tax Savings COMMUTER CHOICE

• Employer-Paid Transportation Benefits.
• Employers can pay for their employees to commute
  by transit or vanpool, up to a limit of
  100/month. Employees get up to 100 in a
  tax-free transportation benefit. Employers get a
  tax deduction for the expense and savings on
  payroll-related taxes.
• -OR-
• Employee-Paid, Pre-Tax Transportation Benefits.
• Employers can allow employees to set aside up to
  100/month of pre-tax income to pay for transit
  or vanpooling. Employers save money since the
  amount set aside is not subject to payroll taxes.
  Employees save money, too, since the amount set
  aside is not subject to income tax.
• -OR-
• Shared-Cost Transportation Benefits.
• Employers can share transit or vanpool costs with
  employees-and everyone can receive valuable tax
  savings. Employers can provide a portion of the
  cost of taking transit or vanpooling as a
  tax-free benefit and allow the employee to set
  aside pre-tax income to pay for the remaining
  amount of the benefit.
• -OR-
• Parking Cash-Out.
• Employers can offer their employees the option to
  "cash out" of their existing parking space.

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Improved Work Production

• Every commuter really has two jobs first they
  fight traffic and then they do the job theyre
  paid for!
• Reduced water-cooler time
• Better concentration

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Higher Satisfaction Retention

• Commute options are addedbennies
• Reduced commute stress
• Reduced commute costs and schedule benefits make
  the job they have better than a higher paying
  alternative

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More Available Space

• Telecommuters share on-site workspace
• For each carpool, at least one parking space is
  left empty
• For each vanpool, up to 14 parking spaces are
  left empty
• This unused parking space becomes available for
  other uses

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Access to Diverse Labor Markets

• Hire talented, motivated employees who might not
  be able to join your company without Commute
  Solutions
• Retain trained employees who might leave due to
  commuting costs
• Attract employees for whom an easy commute wins
  over a higher-paying job

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Improved Company Image

• Moving with the times
• Cleaning up air quality
• Emissions Savings Tracking Program
• Commute Solutions Environmental Stewardship
  Awards
• Commuter Choice Program
• Standard of Excellence

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Review What we GIVE you

• FREE employee matching services
• Carpool
• Vanpool
• Bike Buddies
• FREE presentations and materials
• FREE assistance in starting any program
• FREE emissions savings tracking
• FREE Air Quality Health Alert Notification

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Review What you GET out of it

• Substantial savings for employees
• Improved employee work quality
• Higher employee satisfaction retention
• More available office parking space
• Better access to diverse labor markets
• Improved company image

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Questions?
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Contact Information
Annette Prosterman Commute Solutions (210)
CAR-POOL [phone] aprosterman_at_aacog.com