What is the Guaranteed Ride Home program?
What are the benefits of a Guaranteed Ride Home program?
How ATP helps
How can I encourage employee participation?
Online resources
What is the Guaranteed Ride Home program?
The Metropolitan Washington Council of Government's (MWCOG) Commuter Connections has created the Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) program to provide commuters who regularly vanpool, carpool, bike, walk, or take transit, with a reliable ride home when one of life's unexpected emergencies arises. Commuters can use free GRH for personal emergencies and unscheduled overtime up to four times per year. Best of all, the ride home by cab, rental car, bus or train is free (excluding gratuity, fuel and insurance charges). As an added benefit to your employees, you can provide your own GRH program to supplement MWCOG's program. Return to top
What are the benefits of a Guaranteed Ride Home program?
Imagine a crisis has just occurred, requiring an emergency meeting, and it's 4:45 in the afternoon. Unfortunately, the key employee to the situation cannot attend the emergency meeting because her carpool leaves at 5:00 and she has no other way to get home. What do you do? The GRH program was created for situations just like this one, and can help employers maintain productivity, increase morale, and continue the flow of business.
Also, offering a GRH program encourages employees to use alternative forms of commuting, such as carpooling and vanpooling, by giving them the peace of mind of knowing they have a way to get home if an emergency situation arises.
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How ATP helps:
ATP makes it easy and convenient for you to establish and administer a GRH program. Ways in which ATP can help include:
- Providing information on GRH and answering any questions
- Providing promotional materials such as brochures, videos, and posters
- Helping with the design and implementation of your supplemental GRH program
How can I encourage employee participation?
There are numerous ways you can get the word out and encourage employee participation in a GRH program, including:
- Providing a supplemental GRH program
- Sending out e-mail notifications and reminders
- Displaying posters and flyers in high-traffic areas of your office
- Including information packets with paychecks
- Including an article in your company newsletter
- Providing information on your company's intranet
- Including information in your new hire packets
Online resources:
CommuterPage.com's Guaranteed Ride Home page
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