Welcome to Runzheimer International’s Mobility Report, a publication that provides you with helpful tips, current statistics, and insightful analysis of industry trends in travel, business vehicles, corporate aircraft, relocation, international assignments, and virtual office programs.
In This Issue:
Workplace Redefined
How Virtual Office Programs Can Benefit Your Organization
Significant advances in technology and communication over the past decade have made the concept of the virtual office much more attractive and practical to companies facing talent management, facilities planning and business continuity concerns. Many businesses are revisiting assumptions about how employees can and should contribute to organizational goals and objectives in physical environments beyond the traditional corporate office. Click for details >>
Latest Total Employee Mobility Survey Highlights
According to the latest Runzheimer Total Employee Mobility Benchmarking Report:
- Total Costs Are Comparable to Health Insurance
The total investment organizations are making in employee mobility programs is about $5,000 per employee per year, regardless of whether an employee is mobile. This amount is comparable to providing health insurance to the workforce.
- 40% - 50% of Workforce is Mobile
Within the typical organization, approximately 40% of workers hold positions that are likely to require participation in employee mobility programs, and in some industries in Runzheimer’s participant sample, the percentage was 50% or more. For more details >>
BUSINESS VEHICLE SERVICES
IRS 2007 Tax Changes: At a Glance
Overall, there's actually some good coming from recent changes in IRS code related to your business vehicle policy. As it does every year, the taxing authority has made some highly publicized changes (and some quiet ones) to the codes and standards that affect your corporate costs. This is a brief summary of those changes that will have an impact on your bottom line - good or bad - depending on your current policy.
GLOBAL MOBILITY SERVICES
Audits. . . Win-Win for Supplier and Client
Definition of an Audit
Audit
Function: noun
1 : a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation
2 : a methodical examination and review
Function: transitive verb
1 : to perform an audit of or for <audit the books> <audit the company>
2 : to attend (a course) without working for or expecting to receive formal credit
Strange that such a benign definition of a word incites immediate reaction. Fear. Defensiveness, Resistance. Animosity. Creative Avoidance. And many others! It seems we have long been conditioned to react this way. Since we were children, we have been told to think of everything in absolute terms of right or wrong. Unfortunately, audits, in many instances, have been positioned as either "you are right" or "you are wrong" with little opportunity for input or explanation. Adding to the negative feelings surrounding these audits, a threat or penalty, usually severe, could be expected.
TRAVEL MANAGEMENT SERVICES
26th Annual Profile of the Travel Management Professional
One important function of Runzheimer's Travel Management Network (TMN) is to gather, analyze, interpret and report on a broad range of information about travel management. Our surveys and, subsequent data, comments and recommendations allow travel managers to benchmark individual performance and resulting consequences with those of their peers. In this our 26th year, we dedicate this issue of Mobility Report to those of you who continually strive to establish best practices in an ever-changing world.
Runzheimer International Receives The 2006 Wisconsin Governor's Forward Award Of Excellence
Department of Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman, on behalf of Governor Jim Doyle, announced that Runzheimer International has been awarded the 2006 Governor’s Wisconsin Forward Award of Excellence, Wisconsin's highest honor for organizational performance excellence.
Secretary Gassman praised the recipients, noting that "These award winners demonstrate that an organization's ongoing commitment to excellence can have long-term affects and lead to major gains in performance, customer satisfaction and retention, and employee performance in involvement."
Over the past ten years, only six other organizations have received the Wisconsin Forward Award of Excellence.
The Wisconsin Forward Award, Inc. is modeled after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program. The Baldrige Award is given by the President of the United States to businesses—manufacturing and service, small and large—and to education and health care organizations that apply and are judged to be outstanding in seven areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer and market focus; measurement, analysis, and knowledge management; human resource focus; process management; and results.
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