Cycle to Work Scheme problems

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  • doyler78
    doyler78 Posts: 1,951
    RufusA wrote:
    doyler78 wrote:
    If your company has dispensed with those part then what does your company provide?

    It's a *very* small company you can count the employees on one hand. The company bought some bikes (with input from the employees), and lent them to the employees for their use. Used an LBS and a company credit card!

    It works in exactly the same way as other company equipment i.e. laptop computers, mobile phones etc.

    At some yet to be determined point the company may replace the bikes, and offer the old ones to the employees to buy at whatever they are currently worth.

    No salary sacrifice, but the employees know that because the company has spent a couple of k on bikes, that's a couple of k less in the buget for that year to go on pay rises, bonuses or perks.

    FWIW the company has already saved the cost of 1 bike on savings in parking / mileage claims usually incurred visiting client sites.

    HTH - Rufus.

    Do the employees have to pay for using the bikes? If they don't sounds like a nice alternative.
  • RufusA
    RufusA Posts: 500
    doyler78 wrote:
    Do the employees have to pay for using the bikes? If they don't sounds like a nice alternative.

    Not directly, but they didn't get as large a pay rise last year as they might have done otherwise.

    Rufus.
  • cycletowork
    cycletowork Posts: 26
    RufusA wrote:
    cycletowork wrote:
    Time per employee = 15 minutes
    cycletowork wrote:
    This is some kind of joke right?

    We beg to differ!

    Rufus.

    :) LOL so its not a joke.

    My favourite part is a week or more to write a green transport policy. If that is not enough to put an employer off I'm not sure what would!

    Seriously what kind of business are you in? We offer free admin help to companies in our area who want help with cycletowork admin but no-one much ever seems to need it.

    cheers
  • sidepull
    sidepull Posts: 2
    Thanks to all for your contributions . All of your comments are useful but as I am trying to persuade them to start up the scheme I will quote the ones that imply a short timescale :)
    We have > 1000 employees so should be able to gain from economies of scale.

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