Many top corporates in the country are now proactively encouraging employees to carpool, bikepool, and use ride-share apps to commute to work to help ease persistent traffic gridlocks across Indian cities every working day and reduce air pollution.
Companies with large workforces such as Infosys, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Amazon, Flipkart, Siemens, L&T, Biocon and HDFC Bank and several smaller companies are running awareness campaigns, setting up digital platforms to help employees plan commutes better, and even rewarding top carpoolers to keep employees engaged and motivated to reduce carbon emissions and traffic jams across cities.
“Some of the companies spend up to $3-4 million per year on employee transportation,” said Lakshna Jha, CEO of sRide. “By introducing carpooling, there is an alternative mode of transportation which helps to reduce cost. It also helps to form a stronger community among employees.” sRide recently onboarded WNS, Huawei and Snapdeal.
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