Reducing Parking Demand and Improving Employee Satisfaction

Parking at the office can be one of the most underestimated employee experience issues.  Across industries, parking affects recruitment, retention, productivity, stress levels, and even employees’ willingness to return to the office.

Some of the issues include –

Availability and Capacity – Not enough parking spaces and long waitlists for parking permits

Cost – High monthly parking fees that continue to rise

Distance and Convenience – Distance of parking lots, Shuttle delays and carrying laptops and other supplies a long distance, weather issues

Time and Productivity – Time spent finding parking and congestion

Employee Well-Being – Anxiety about finding a spot, frustration, commuter fatigue, lower willingness to return to work

Employers are beginning to address parking challenges with a variety of commuter benefits.  Commuter benefits include compensation and/or perks for employees to help offset the financial cost and stress of traveling to and from work.  One of the most popular benefits to address parking issues is priority parking for rideshare vehicles. Priority parking can address many of the issues of availability of parking, cost, convenience and frustration.  Participants in VanStar rideshares enjoy better, more convenient parking while saving money.