Day: 29 April 2019

Business travel isn’t always about continental breakfasts, expensing meals or wining and dining prospective clients. To make sure everything is fair, it’s a two-way relationship between employees and employees. Employers splash the cash while employees win deals or get important work done onsite. And while employers recognise the importance of duty of care, it’s often a task that can fall on the intermediary the travel booker. Which is no problem when everything is going well but what if an employee misses a flight or there’s a weather disaster or a health concern? The truth is that while nearly three-quarters of companies have a risk management process in place when it comes to business travel, one-fifth of employees don’t feel it’s all that effective, according to the Global Business Travel Association. Then there’s the other 25 percent which have no formal strategy at all for managing people’s safety while they’re on the road. While every individual workforce comes with its own unique needs and risks, organisations can use three key principles to promote safe business travel. Mastering them takes a little coordination and a lot of help from a business hotel booking platform.