It’s unfortunate when an event requires an emergency review of tracking systems so employers can help business travelers out of harm’s way. Worse yet is when they can’t trust those systems. With the glut of cancelations this month, false reports showed travelers at originally intended destinations when they never made the trip. This isn’t good…
Prof. Robert Quigley, M.D., is SVP and regional medical director in the Americas for International SOS Assistance and MedAire. Here he stresses a conscientious approach to the spread of the coronavirus and offers guidance for organizations and their travelers. The continued increase of confirmed cases of Covid-19 globally, as well as in the United States,…
While some companies help employees manage the physical and mental rigors of business travel, many more do not, according to experts and new research. In a dangerous world, as society becomes more aware of mental health issues, they’d better get on that. According to a September survey by CWT, 71 percent of 388 C-suite executives…
Serving the emergency response niche within employee duty of care, publicly traded Everbridge has signed nearly 4,000 new enterprise customers during the past eight years. This summer the company acquired NC4, a curator of risk data. It also maintains a partnership with International SOS, a leader in travel risk management. Everbridge started in the wake…
WorldAware expects next week to enable app messaging that pushes alerts to client employees based on where they turn up and allows organizations to see which areas their participating people enter. Updated this week, the latest version of the International SOS app added push notifications for medical and security alerts based on the user’s proximity…
Carlson Wagonlit Travel last year renamed its mobile app myCWT and used its technology to build a desktop/laptop/browser-based booking interface. CEO Kurt Ekert doesn’t want to call it an online booking tool, but he said when some clients offered it to employees alongside a traditional OBT, myCWT took share. So far offering hotel and air bookings…
An International SOS Foundation study of international business travelers’ health and wellness uncovered some new points, according to researchers. One was that few companies accounted for vulnerabilities among employees with pre-existing psychological conditions. Another was about risk-taking. When travelers are out and about, they’re more likely to do things they would not normally. International SOS in late…
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