At my work everybody gets a monthly bonus for transportation. It's roughly the same amount of money as monthly parking. But, if you don't drive, then it's just a bonus. I think that's more fair than only giving money to certain people for certain things.
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In Japan, nearly all employers pay for your monthly train pass and if you live far enough from a train station, they will pay your bus fare to and from the train station. When I worked in Central Tokyo my train pass was about $300 a month with the conversion rate at the time. You are also covered by the employer's industrial accident insurance while traveling between work and home. If you get hurt, the employer has to compensate you.
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When I was an intern and first moved to the city, all I had ever known was driving to get everywhere. The suburb I grew up in didn't have any public transit other than school buses.
I think for a lot of Americans (making an assumption here), they don't even consider modes other than driving. Maybe as part of orientation you can explain the public transit options available.
That's a really good idea! I'll float that to the trainer.
Better outcome: people being compensated for greener/healthier commuting. Walk, you young MFers!
Yeah, free transit passes is a good push in the right direction.
They prolly live in suburbs because of crime in the city... So public transit is too high risk for these elites
Not necessarily even that. It used to take me 24 minutes to drive to work and over two hours to take a bus. It’s not reasonable to ask someone to add an extra four hours to their shift imo
I don't really know what town or how good the public transit is, but interns don't really make anything. Advocating for a transit allowance or something that could cover public transit and could be used to help with parking could be good. If they live in town, going over biking or transit options with them could also be good, and maybe also "park and ride" options as well. But yeah, $18 daily when you're an intern isn't easy.
Both have been said, but just to reinforce: I think a combination of an information campaign (send an email, put up a sign in the break room) about local transit options and maybe some subsidy for transit could solve the problem.
I know around me a lot of companies provide employees with a regional transit pass.
Maybe take them to lunch on transit to help ease the scary new things factor of taking transit. Once they're comfortable they may be more inclined to do it for a commute.