Want Happy Employees? Keep Them Poised With an Effective Travel Risk Management Program

Work’s more exciting when office walls happen to be the Alps or a Mediterranean beach. But to sit before such panoramic views with a notebook, carefree, you’ll need a corporate travel company that puts ‘duty of care’ foremost. These travel arrangement professionals organize the moral and legal obligations alluded by the ‘duty of care’ in a travel risk management program.

When there’s something strange in your employee’s itinerary or something weird with your Hollywood business trip, you’ll just have to call your trusted corporate travel partner. A well-planned travel risk management program set up by your business travel agency can bring about positive employee response and bonus productivity.

To check whether your corporate travel partner offers the best travel risk management, you only have to look for 5 essential services. These include an up-to-date travel policy, Travel Insurance, Support tools, Emergency broadcasts, and a Single booking/communication channel. You might as well rearrange and abbreviate it SUTES because it breaks the wall of helplessness when you’re backed against an unfamiliar environment.

An updated travel policy notifies corporate travelers about the latest travel trends, local customs, dos, don’ts, and prohibitions in different parts of the world. Imagine extending your business trip to take a breather at a Cairo bazaar when suddenly you’re pickpocketed. An up-to-date travel policy will warn you of recent crime spikes and cutpurse hotspots in the Egyptian capital.

In a distressing situation like the one mentioned above, it’s better to secure oneself with insurance, especially since frequent flyers have a higher probability of running into trouble abroad. The perfect travel insurance will provide speedy claim settlements for flight delays, baggage loss, financial restrictions, and sudden medical expenses.

Dedicated tools for smooth communication and instant grievance redressal complement good travel insurance. If a flight gets delayed, corporate flyers can communicate using a customized app on their phone to ask their corporate travel partner for a plan B. Emergency hotlines comfort stuck employees with a reassuring plan of action. These software are always easy to use and extremely handy.

Transparency in the flight booking process and employee communication helps companies manage their employees better. A single channel carrying out the reservation keeps muddles and misunderstandings away. If an executive team, manager, and travel consultants are in the same communication thread where multiple reservations are being made, copious amounts of time will be saved.

Emergency broadcasts should be available to flying employees 24/7, throughout the year. In the case of violent weather or terrorist attacks, employees will know better to postpone their plans. The broadcasts need to be made through SMSes and standard calls to make sure the business travelers do not miss them.

SUTES relies on crisis planning, situational awareness, and crystal-clear communication. With X’s specialization in these ‘duty of care’ matters, corporate traveling employees fly happy and carefree. We’re someone you can depend on from the beginning to the end of a journey and not just difficult times.