An engagement platform offering traveling employees a central source for corporate program info, Tripism last month announced an agreement with U.K.-based Good Travel Management to bring its services to small and medium-sized enterprises. Unlike Tripism’s direct work with large corporates and its partnership with BCD Travel, in the case of GTM, the TMC is the client….
Pharmaceutical company Alkermes is looking for hotels that offer a safe jogging path. At IBM, the security team questions potential preferred properties. Automation Anywhere wants some favors on the meetings side for space or flexible terms. It’s a challenging rate environment, but there’s more than one way for corporate buyers to find value in lodging…
Read on for an edited transcript of an interview with Suzanne Neufang, CEO of the Global Business Travel Association, conducted remotely on Tuesday by The Company Dime co-founder Jay Campbell. So we’ll be seeing you in Dallas in a couple of weeks. What’s going to be different at this year’s convention? We might say we’re…
In an April post for the Society for Human Resource Management, sociologist and author Jan Yager, Ph.D., called on HR pros to encourage employees to take time off. It was one of several SHRM articles on the benefits of downtime published this year. Corporate travel departments can help. Yager mentioned providing travel discounts to employees…
Corporations focused a procurement lens on travel en masse beginning around the turn of the century. The new emphasis on spend management surfaced questions about the return on investment in trips, and with the 2007-2008 financial crisis, companies began demanding answers. Some industry organizations attempted to answer the demand with research, but it did not…
Researchers again found virtual communication offers “limited” capacity to replace face-to-face meetings. But with support for predicted reductions of between 20 percent and 30 percent in business travel volume due to trends accelerated by the pandemic, they argued that understanding how businesspeople choose between travel and virtual “has become urgent.” Researchers at the University of…
For more than two decades, Alicia Grandey, a professor of psychology at Penn State, has been studying how the mistreatment of frontline service workers affects their health and productivity. The behavior she examines ranges from verbal abuse to racial or sexual harassment. She also looks at ambiguous circumstances, in which it’s unclear whether any harm…
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