The Business case for car-sharing with liftshare

All  organisations are looking for smarter ways to work in order to reduce overheads. Most also have targets – or feel a responsibility - to take care of the environment and community in which they work. A liftshare scheme can tick both of these boxes and presents a genuine win-win solution.

The likely costs of implementing a liftshare scheme are:

• Purchasing the liftshare system
• Staff time spent marketing and monitoring the system (as little as  2-3 hours per week)
• Some organisations choose to provide incentives to encourage people to join the system and share their commute
• Marketing material to help raise awareness of the system

The benefits to the organisation:

• Removes or reduces parking problems on and around the site
• Relieves localised congestion
• Releases parking spaces for more productive and profitable use
• Fulfil Section 106 agreements / planning permission
• Assists with staff recruitment and retention
• Increase accessibility and social inclusion
• Help achieve and demonstrate commitment to CSR objectives
• Increase employee well-being
• Improve relationships with the local community
• Easy reporting of estimated CO2 savings
• Help build greater understanding of the organisation and inter-departmental relationships
• Enables informal business activity among colleagues during commuting time

The benefits to your staff:

• Cost-effective mode of transport to work
• Fewer parking problems
• Increases travel options for those with no, or limited, car access
• New friendships
• Reduce the stress of driving
• Helping staff to reduce their carbon footprint

For an assessment of the savings that can be made by implementing a liftshare scheme, taking into account your organisations unique situation, please do contact us at findoutmore@liftshare.com