Can traveling responsibly get you more vacation time? Yes, in some companies, reports BFMTV. This is what Ubiq, a French company specializing in listing offices and coworking spaces in France, offers. For the past year and a half, it has been offering two extra vacation days per year to its employees who choose to take the bus, train or carpool for trips in Europe, where the plane would allow them to reach their destination more quickly.
The aim is therefore to encourage more virtuous modes of transport, where the easy option would be to take a plane. Ubiq has set up “TTR” (“responsible travel time”), under certain conditions. Thus, employees are invited to work if they can when they have access to a Wi-Fi connection, by reading emails, texts or thinking about subjects. At Ubiq, they are granted approximately once every six months. Quoted by our colleagues, the company’s CEO estimates that these two days per year are equivalent to two weekends since the TTR can be taken in half-days.
According to our colleagues, 18 months after the implementation of this system, half of the employees have used it, for short trips in Europe (Corsica, Italy or Spain). Faced with this success, other companies have decided to follow in Ubiq’s footsteps, like Vendredi, which has been offering the system since summer 2023. Employees must then provide proof of (…)
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