The Fairfax County Employer Services
Program will help your business and employees find transportation
solutions that will not only make your company more successful,
but improve the economic vitality and quality of life for the
entire region. The Employer Services Specialist will work on-site
with you to help you realize the bottom-line benefits of commute
alternatives.
How
Your Company Benefits from Commute Alternatives:
- Improved employee productivity
- Improved morale
- Easier recruitment and retention
- Reduced parking and office space needs and
costs
- Easier access and traffic flow at work site
- Reduced absenteeism and late arrivals
- Public recognition as a good corporate citizen
How Your Employee Benefits
from Commute Alternatives:
- Reduced commuting time and expenses
- Reduced wear-and-tear on personal vehicles
- Less stress
- More productive time while riding to and
from work
- Flexible work schedules
- Access to HOV lanes
How Your Community Benefits from
Commute Alternatives:
- Easier travel on streets and highways
- Increased economic vitality
- Economic development benefits
- Cleaner air
- Improved overall quality of life
Join the Partnership for a Stress Free Commute
Post commute alternative information on your Web site, intranet, newsletter, and employee bulletin board.
For example; the Northern Virginia Community College has a newly created link, "Getting Here", that provides employees and students with transit solution available to and from all six campuses.
The Employer Services Program
can provide helpful services to your company free of charge:
Development of tax-free commute benefit programs
(Metrochek, Metrochek Match)
- On-site transportation assessments
- Confidential employee commute surveys
- Mapping of employee residence patterns
- Computerized ridematching
- Corporate relocation assistance
- On-site rideshare promotions and displays
- Assistance in implementing alternative commute
programs and incentives
- Coordination with nearby companies to establish
commuter programs
- Training an on-site Employee Transportation
Coordinator (ETC)
- Development of incentive programs
- Program follow-up and evaluation
- Transit schedules, route maps and park-and-ride
- New employee commute options information
- Assessment of parking options
- Development of a telework program
- Survey employees to determine transit needs
and preferences
- Help with carpool
and vanpool formations
- Provide up-to-date information on local bus schedules
- Help implement Metrochek
program
For additional program information
or questions, call the Fairfax County Department of Transportation
Employer Services Program at (703) 324-1168 TTY: (703) 324-1102 or submit your comments on-line.
For more information on similar services offered to residential communities please visit the Community Residential Program. |
