Morning Everyone,
We're looking at our travel and expense policy for home workers, particularly how far away they have to be from the office in order to claim travel expenses for travelling to the office.
Our VP of Operations is keen to encourage people who are home workers to visit the office more (and includes herself in this as well) but one barrier to this we've identified is that the travel and expense policy set by our US HQ states that home workers are not eligible to claim expenses for the cost of visiting a company office within 75 miles of their home office.
The expense policy is set and written by the US HQ so this is not something the UK had any input into (it was changed without our knowledge), obviously for the US this works given the size of the country and that remote workers travelling to the office there will be going to an entirely different state so has yet to become an issue.
However for the UK this doesn't work and I've been asked to find out what other companies in the UK do in regards to travel expenses for remote workers and what distances from the office are applied (if any) for them to be able to claim travel costs to/from the office location.
We're hoping to gather some information so that we can leverage HQ to add an adjustment in for the UK. Hoping the community may be able to help with this.
Thank you