NEARLY nine in ten employers believe that the cycle to work scheme improves employee engagement and wellbeing.
Research has found that 87 per cent of participants in the scheme have found their health improving while 98 per cent say that they would recommend cycle to work to work mates.
This is according to the “Behavioural Impact Analysis” research project, conducted by the Cycle to Work Alliance.
Cycle to Work was introduced in 1999 and allows employers to buy tax exempt bicycles and other cycling equipment which they then loan to their workers.
Employees are often given the opportunity to buy the equipment from their employer at the end of the loan period.
Eighty-four per cent of the 44,500 people surveyed for the research rated the scheme an “easy and important means of staying fit.”
Mark Smith Cycle to Work Alliance representative said: "Employers are seeing the benefits of a healthier and more engaged workforce - vital as the country moves out of the recession."
Norman Baker MP, parliamentary under secretary of state for transport said: "The benefits of cycling run much deepr than balance sheets or carbon footprints. It is a crucial life skill as well as offering easy, exhilirating exercise. I would therefore like to congratulate the alliance on the positive impact it's business and services have had in generating awareness and rasing cycling levels."
The scheme has also been praised for encouraging workers who had never cycled to work before to take part and also for its positive environmental benefits with users saving 133,442 tonnes of CO2 each year.
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