Have you ever thought about how the concept of carpooling service can gain sustainability in workplaces?
Carpooling is not a new concept. We often do it with our colleagues, friends, and neighbors. Carpooling not only saves you money on diesel spending, but it also helps addressing the environmental concerns and soothes traffic conditions in our towns and cities. However, very little has been done yet in this field so as to make it innovatively automatic and ensure its availability all the time. SAP, Germany has introduced ‘TwoGo’, a platform specifically designed to encourage and facilitate carpooling solutions and enhanced employee networking among corporate users.
The ultimate aim of TwoGo is to help employees save money on parking; at the same time help companies better manage company/hired cars, and business trips. The platform is a real boost for corporate. Companies hire the service of the entire commuting on per trip basis or pay as per the contract. Usually, a short distance cab service availed by an employee costs almost equal to a full trip. Also, most of the time, due to a slight chance of mistake or delay, company has to pay separately for the cab service availed by different employees for a common route. Cumulatively, all such costs add up to a huge amount and the overall profitability, accordingly, is hampered. TwoGo by SAP is the solution for such concerns of companies.
TwoGo uses NOKIA’s location cloud – HERE for its ability to provide spectacular mapping and location experience across a range of mobile devices, multiple screens, and operating systems. NOKIA HERE is a robust communication app that ensures accurate and comprehensive global mapping information, traffic updates, and routing capabilities. TwoGo can utilize the most advantageous feature of HERE as it has and is planning to expand its compatibility to most of the popular operating systems and devices; including Android, iOS, Firefox OS, Windows 8 Phones, NOKIA N9, WebOS, BlackBerry 7.0, and more.
Ride share and carpooling are not the only features, for which TwoGo will become popular. Employee network and knowledge transfer are somewhere hidden behind the philosophy. Companies spend huge on employee inclusion, openness, and knowledge transfer. TwoGO will enable a natural environment to the employees, where they will automatically get scope to interact with each other, beyond their expertise and designation. This will again develop a sense of engagement and inclusion with the company and the employees will gain from the experiences and expertise of others.
In the long run, company will benefit from more knowledgeable employees, a better work environment, more engaged, aligned, and inclined workforce. Employees’ commitment towards their companies will improve, resulting in less resignations and employee separations. For organizations, this is bonus and the overall cost-structure will be profitable, due to saving from spending on employee training, employee motivation, recruitment, and online recruiting software etc.
TwoGo by SAP can particularly be a useful concept for corporate in all the aspects. While at one end, there is direct savings in terms of reduced frequent trips, trip cost sharing, at the other hand, both the employees and the company can enjoy a better working relationship, conducive for growth and development of the individual as well as the organization.
Author Bio: Mohit is a seasoned online marketing professional with more than 7 years of experience. He also writes on various topic of his interest including technology, computing, Internet marketing, SEO, telecom, ecommerce, and many more.
