Employer Solutions
Look below for information, resources and tools employers can use to help their employees navigate construction.
About Employer Solutions
In today's business environment, recruiting and retaining our most valued asset – our employees – is essential for business success. This is ever more challenging during the much-needed Virginia Megaprojects construction phase – designed to bring transportation solutions and improved and increased choices to commuters across northern Virginia. That's why Virginia Megaprojects offer bottom line employer solutions that help you and your business.
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the Department Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) have joined together to provide employers and businesses in the areas affected by the Virginia Megaprojects with a comprehensive employer solutions program. The Employer Solutions are designed to help employers create new approaches or enhance existing services to keep your employees moving during construction.
A study of the commute in Northern Virginia recently revealed a 300% increase in carpooling, vanpooling, taking the bus, or teleworking by employees when their company supports the programs. Whether you are a small business that just needs some information or a large employer with hundreds of workers, let us help you take advantage of special incentives. Contact the Employer Solutions experts at employersolutions@vamegaprojects.com.
Employer Incentives
Not only do the Employer Solutions help you recruit and retain your talented employees, but there are bottom line incentive programs available to help you implement new services or enhance existing programs. Potential incentives could include:
- Up to $50,000 to establish a new or to expand an existing Telework!VA program
- Up to nearly half the cost to start a new vanpool under the VanStart program, or keep an established vanpool on the road when unexpected rider loss occurs with the VanSave program
- Up to half the cost of employee transit or vanpool fares as an employer match to employer support under the SmartBenefits program
Contact Employer Solutions
Contact a Virginia Megaprojects Employer Solutions Manager to start the process.
E-mail: employersolutions@vamegaprojects.com - provide your company and contact.
Phone: (877) 9595-222 - your call will be returned within one business day to begin the process.
Listening to Your Needs
Every solution begins with identifying a business challenge. The first thing we do is – listen. Each company is unique with a different business model and set of employee needs. The Virginia Megaprojects Employer Solutions Manager will listen to your company and employees' commuting challenges. Our team will make recommendations and work with you to create a solution that meets your company's needs. We will do much of the legwork for you – we know you already have a full time job!
Helping You to Assess Your Needs
Your Virginia Megaprojects Employer Solutions Manager will work with you to assess your current situation and to determine what solutions can be successfully implemented to address your organization's challenges. Your needs assessment may include:
- Company work site(s) analysis
- Number and demographic information about employees
- Current work hours and work shifts
- On site amenities availability (eating options, mailing services etc.)
- Type of work and corporate culture
- Parking management policies
- Employee commute feedback received
- Company priorities and company recognition opportunities
- Potential company commitment to establishing a commuter programs
Customized Business Solutions
A customized approach offering a variety of employee commute business solutions will be tailored to meet your specific needs. Business solutions that help meet your employees' commute needs may include:
- Determining the shared-ride commute options that are available for your employees
- Providing SmartBenefit program benefit and cost information
- Determining the viability of establishing an alternative work hours program
- Providing on-site car and vanpool formation services
- Providing technical assistance and consulting services to support telework
- Producing a map to illustrate potential vanpool formation areas based on your employees' home locations
- Hosting employee transportation fairs
- Promoting new commute opportunities with support from your company
- Determining specific support services (park and ride lots, Guaranteed Ride Home Program, commute/bus training, etc.) needed to facilitate ridesharing
Benefits for All
Workers in Northern Virginia want to save time and save money – it's a unifying motivating factor. Getting to work as scheduled, with less stress and in a money-saving mode during the Virginia Megaprojects construction phase will help make you the Employer of Choice! In this era of being eco-friendly, many employers have found that not only does providing good commute options to employees make good bottom line sense – it helps protect the region's air quality through the reduction of harmful emissions. Go Green and your Employer Solutions Manager can help you calculate your company's cost and environmental savings.
