Some companies will cover travel and other expenses for employees seeking abortions out of state, but as Emma Goldberg writes, ensuring safety and confidentiality is no small task. There is no clear blueprint for corporate engagement on abortion. After numerous companies came forward to announce that they would cover travel expenses for their employees to…
Corporate policies and training programs should facilitate and encourage post-trip recovery to mitigate the ill effects of international business travel, according to new research. That could mean allowing extra time to deal with jet lag or personal tasks, encouraging relaxation during trips, establishing minimum rest periods between long-haul excursions or suggesting moratoria on work communications….
Spend management company Emburse released a mobile app for managing “every aspect” of a business trip. The Emburse Go digital companion for iOS and Android devices is a scalable, down-market, less customized version of the Roadmap app that Emburse acquired in 2021. It’s available for a spending-based fee to Emburse’s 16,000 small and medium-sized expense…
The Global Business Travel Association on Wednesday welcomed back its Media Day event at the start of the annual convention. More series of presentations than press conference, the event requires presenters — companies that sponsor or exhibit at the convention and pay extra to be involved — to agree to withhold their announcements until the…
In the works since 2018, the initial version of ISO guidance on travel risk management is scheduled for release this month. It will provide a roadmap and a set of best practices that could evolve into a more formal standard and associated certification. Travel risk management experts welcome the publication and see it as a…
McKinsey & Company on Wednesday published its latest assessment of the “comeback of corporate travel,” and it’s not bad. That is, the evaluation neatly summarizes many of the pandemic-driven issues corporate travel leaders are grappling with, and the outlook isn’t the end of the world. The management consultancy sees 80 percent of 2019 volume coming…
Corporate travel managers are setting up for business travel recovery, but unknowns await. Intel is king. Duty of care is adapting. Sustainability initiatives are further eroding internal meetings and travel. The C-suite is listening. These were among the notable themes in discussions taped for or conducted during SAP Concur’s June 17 Travel Industry Summit. Amid…
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