Cycling 'should be part' of employee benefits programme

Date: 29/10/2009

Businesses wanting to enhance their scheme of incentives and recognition with a healthy undercurrent should consider a new government scheme to encourage cycling, it has been offered.

Secretary of state for transport Lord Adonis told Personnel Today that he hopes to get more people into the newly-available cycle-to-work tax breaks.

At the moment, three per cent of the working population cycle to work, though the politician believes there are too many benefits associated with the activity, helping it become a possible part of an incentives and recognition strategy.

"Cycling to work should be a central part of an employer's HR strategy," Lord Adonis said. "It is popular with staff, it also leads to healthier staff, more motivated staff and greater productivity."

BSkyB, Nestle and GlaxoSmithKline have joined up to the initiative already.

It follows the discontinuation of tax relief on childcare vouchers, which will be stopped as of 2011.

Posted by Peter Chad

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