The EmpRoute Solution: Analyzing the Impact of Office Relocations on Employee Commuting
Why is it Important
Choosing a new office location can be challenging in many ways. One of the most critical issues is the impact on employee commutes.
So, you have found one or more potential locations in a nearby city with lower rents, but the average commute time for your 500 employees would increase by 50%. How many will try to find a job at another, more conveniently located company? In certain countries, some employees may also be entitled to financial compensation.
The EmpRoute Solution Can Help with a Few Simple Steps
- Enter the names and addresses of all employees into a spreadsheet. Data can be copied from an Excel file that you probably already have. Autocomplete will present valid options as you type, similar to Google & Bing Maps.
- Enter the addresses of the current office and also the potential new ones.
- Specify the desired departure times. For example: 7:00, 9:00, 15:00, 17:00, next Tuesday. Typical traffic conditions at this time will be used where supported.
- Validate the addresses. EmpRoute uses geolocation services to validate each address.
- Is a valid street address.
- Can be resolved unambiguously, meaning that only one real street exists that matches the address.
- Create reports. These include
- Raw data showing the duration and distance of each employee to/from each office location and for each specified time.
- Data overview for each office location.
- A summary comparing the different office locations and showing the overall impact of the relocation.
- For further processing, the data and reports can be exported to Excel.
How to Join
EmpRoute supports single users as well as collaboration among users in an organization, for example, in a commercial real estate broker firm.
EmpRoute is currently invite-only. If you work in an organization that already uses EmpRoute, ask someone to invite you. Otherwise, please contact us.
