{"id":207259313,"date":"2011-07-27T20:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T20:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207259313"},"modified":"2011-07-27T20:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T20:01:53","slug":"bicycle-friendly-business-shows-that-it-pays-to-encourage-bicycling-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207259313","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle Friendly Business shows that it pays to encourage bicycling in the workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Bikeleague.org Blog by Alison<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>By encouraging QBP employees to commute by bike through 2007-2011, the company found the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The company experienced a 4.4% reduction in per      member per month health care costs associated with an estimated 3-year      savings of $170,000<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 100 commuters incurred an      estimated 3-year savings of $600,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The business benefitted with an annual savings of $301,136 in employee productivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/programs\/bicyclefriendlyamerica\/bicyclefriendlybusiness\/pdfs\/quality_bike_products_health_reward_program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see the full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/bicycle-friendly-business-shows-that-it-pays-to-encourage-bicycling-in-the-workplace\/\">https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/bicycle-friendly-business-shows-that-it-pays-to-encourage-bicycling-in-the-workplace\/<\/a>oldId.20110727200153640<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Bikeleague.org Blog by Alison &#8230; By encouraging QBP employees to commute by bike through 2007-2011, the company found the following: The company experienced a 4.4% reduction in per member per month health care costs associated with an estimated 3-year savings of $170,000 Approximately 100 commuters incurred an estimated 3-year savings of $600,000 The business &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207259313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bicycle Friendly Business shows that it pays to encourage bicycling in the workplace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207259313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207259313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207259313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207259313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207259313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207259313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207259313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}