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NJ Smart Workplaces
Recognition for companies that provide excellent commuter services benefits.
New Jersey Smart Workplaces honors employers that provide commuter services benefits for employees. Employers may be nominated for bronze, silver, gold or platinum level recognition by an official representative of the organization.RideWise will verify the validity of the employer nomination and/or help employers meet the criteria for the recognition level being sought.
An application to participate is available online or applicants may print the New Jersey Smart Workplaces Application (pdf) and mail it to RideWise.
For additional information, contact linda@ridewise.org
Bronze level criteria
An employer must perform any four of the following activities in the workplace:
- participate with a local transportation management association
- host commuter events at the worksite
- design an onsite point of contact for employee commute inquiries
- place alternative commute information in new-hire packets
- regularly promote commute options at the worksite via memos, postings etc.
- offer an informal flextime program
- offer an informal telework program
- host a commuter information rack or provide transit schedules
- disseminate traffic alerts to employees
An employer must perform any four of the bronze level activities and any three of the following activities in the workplace:
- host on site vanpool or carpool formation meetings
- provide a commuting subsidy to employees
- sell transit passes on site
- provide pretax payroll deductions for commuting costs (vanpool, transit) for employees
- install bike racks or other storage for bicycles
- provide showers and/or lockers for bicyclists and walkers
- provide preferential parking for vanpoolers or carpoolers
- offer a formal flextime program
- offer a formal telework program
- offer a formal compressed workweek policy
- offer an emergency ride home program (this may be offered through the local TMA)
- offer on site amenities such as food service, dry cleaner, ATM/bank, sundries
- provide a site specific innovative service or program to improve employee commutation and reduce traffic congestion
An employer must perform five activities at the bronze level and five at the silver level.
Platinum level criteria
An employer must perform seven activities at the bronze level, five activities at the silver level, and offer at least one of the following platinum benefits:
- provide at least $30 per month towards a transit pass (or the full cost of a pass if it is less than $30) to each employee who commutes using transit.
- provide at least $30 per month towards the vanpool cost (or the full cost if it is less than $30) to each employee who commutes in a vanpool.
- offer a telework or compressed work week program that reduced commute trips by 6 percent.
- provide at least $30 per month to each employee who chooses to receive cash in lieu of a parking space.
- subsidize shuttle operations or provide an employer sponsored shuttle.
