Last year, more than 1,300 companies and organisations used the Bike to Work campaign to provide their employees with an interesting activity during the working year and motivate them to adopt a healthier lifestyle. They also had the opportunity to see how an employee’s journey to work on two wheels can have a positive impact on their work performance and health.
What are the benefits of commuting by bike?
- Employees commuting by bike take out on average 2 fewer sick-days throughout the year, in comparison to their colleagues who commute by car.
- Physical activity at the very beginning of a work day improves one’s performance by up to 15 % while decreases work-related errors by up to 27 %.
- An employee commuting by bike has proven to be more content, confident, and immune to stress.
What are the benefits of commuting by bike for you as an employer?
- Save financial resources – used for building and maintaining parking spots for individual or company cars that are driven around the town, used for team-building.
- Prove that you are a socially responsible company – you care about your employees’ well-being and contribute to ecologically responsible behaviour.
- Become more attractive for potential candidates interested in working for you – company policy that accommodates cyclists is an additional advantage for a modern employer.
When you actively participate in the Bike to Work 2024 campaign, there is one more interesting benefit waiting for you – you can you use the campaign to your advantage as a form of trouble-free teambuilding, just leave it to us and we will organise everything!
With the help of our sophisticated record-keeping system, your employees can not only register with the campaign, but they can also keep track of their commuter statistics. You, as an employer, will be able to oversee these statistics and have a chance to organise an internal company evaluation once the contest is over.
How can your company participate and what activities can you organise to support your employees in registering with the campaign?
The registration is free of charge. As soon as the first team of your employees enters the contest, your company will automatically be registered in the system. However, if you want to make sure that everyone knows about the contest and if you want to motivate people to register, you can do any and all of the following:
- Send out a mass email to your employees that encourages them to make teams of 2 – 4 people, all they need to do is register at www.dopracenabicykli.eu (Note: If you want to organise an internal contest among your employees, tell them to make teams of the same size – e.g. teams of 4 members – which will unify the conditions among the teams and make it easier for you to evaluate the results)
- Select an employee to be in charge of co-ordinating the campaign within your company, someone who will encourage their colleagues to join the campaign and provide them with all necessary information. Subsequently, we will give this person access to all they need to know.
- Motivate your employees by purchasing the official campaign T-shirts for those who register. The cost of the designer bio-cotton T-shirts is only 12,60 euros with coupon!
- Turn the campaign into an internal company contest – award the best ones or draw a lottery after the contest is over!
- Motivate your employees by rewarding them if they register (with small items such as: bike light, bicycle repair tools, etc.)
Every team that registers under your company’s name will put your IČO in the registration form, which will allow us to filter out statistics pertaining solely to your company’s team(s) and which you can use for your internal purposes.
In addition, your company can also compete for an award at the national level in the category “Most Active Employer” and receive an award from the Ministry of Transport of the Slovak Republic.
We believe that your company will join this year’s campaign as well. If you are interested, it is important for you to note that all teams need to register by 7th June 2024 the latest. Therefore we recommend you to begin with motivating your employees soon enough, so they don’t miss out.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch via phone or a contact form and we will gladly answer any and all your questions.