As a facilities leader, commuters in your organization will look to you for guidance and support at every step of their return to the workplace.

Now more than ever, HR teams play a pivotal role in helping to ensure employees have an actionable blueprint for returning to the workplace.

As a transportation leader, commuters from your organization will look to you for guidance and support at every step of their return to the workplace.

With the rise of shared mobility, many of us are familiar with the terms ridesharing and ride-hailing. These terms are used interchangeably and dominate conversations about shared mobility, to the point where individuals, insurance companies, and regulatory agencies now equate both ridesharing and ride-hailing with transportation network companies (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft.

COVID-19 has forced a transformation in the function of HR and benefits, transportation teams, and beyond to partner and work closely together to create effective communications that build trust and provide employees with peace of mind–and this starts with addressing the commute.

In May 2020, the User Research Team at Scoop conducted two surveys of more than 10,000 commuters to better understand what the future of the American commute will look like.

As employers build their return-to-workplace strategies, they’re quickly realizing that a safe return-to-workplace plan is only as safe as their commute plan. Now more than ever, employers have the responsibility to provide equitable and accessible commute options that empower employee choice.

In the blink of an eye, COVID-19 put the world’s work, commuting, and transportation habits on pause. Now, organizations must rewrite the “return-to-workplace playbook” to address protocol for both their employees’ commutes and facilities to plan how to safely bring employees back.

Recap of the 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the University of Washington analysis presented shows the potential of shared commuting opportunities working at a much larger scale than has historically been possible.

Financial and business leaders alike speaking onstage at Davos agreed that the momentum behind this global sustainability movement is carried by a new era of stakeholders: businesses with a bias for action.