Pearson Bike Library
WHAT IS IT?
The Pearson bicycle library is a scheme which enables employers to offer a unique and healthy extra to employees. Based on the same idea as a book library, bikes can be borrowed using a simple booking system. Whether it is for traveling to or from meetings or to help with the daily commute, access to the bicycle library offers many benefits.
What are the benefits?
An outward and visual sign that your company invests in innovative schemes that add genuine value to employees wellbeing and contribute to saving the environment (bikes can be branded for the period of the contract with your company's logo).
Improved health and vitality for employees contributing to your companies wellness programme. Cycling is a great supported exercise, even short journeys will enhance fitness and help blow away the cobwebs of a day in the office.
Empowering employees to reduce their carbon emissions and contribute to your company environmental policy. Riding a bike is the most carbon friendly and time efficient mode of transport in towns and cities. Do your bit to reduce CO2!
Cost efficiencies for your company and employees i.e. a reduction in taxi, train, tube and bus fares. Leasing bikes is tax efficient and avoids hassle associated with ownership.
How Does it Work?
The bikes are stored on company premises and a simple system of booking in and out is implemented with an appropriate member of staff administering the scheme. Employees book a bike for a predetermined period of time returning the bike when that time is up.
Each bike comes supplied with a luggage bracket on the front of the bike and a detachable Brompton bag. The bikes are fitted with dynamo lights (front and back) for visability. Laminated instructions to fold and unfold the bike are also provided.
The bikes supplied are maintained by Pearson Cycles via a Mobile Service Unit on an 8 weekly basis. In case of high demand Pearson will repair any damaged bike within 48 hours as part of the Service Level Agreement.
At the end of the contract year, employees have the opportunity to buy the bikes at 50% the RRSP (Recommended Retail Selling Price). At the beginning of the contract year bikes are renewed with the latest Brompton models and a revised company branding scheme.
‘... the aim of implementing library was to give our staff a tangible benefit with a difference. The positive feedback we have had is enormous, bikes have been in use for trips to meetings, lunchtime jaunts to Hyde Park, and commutes to and from the office. A great scheme!’
Lorrie Dannecker - Services Director Telegraph Media Group.
‘‘I had forgotten how good it was to cycle again, the bikes save loads of time each end of my commute by train, plus a bunch of us use them to get to football twice a week rather than cabbing it. We need more bikes now...’
Mark Richards - Telegraph Media Group
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