Return to Office
Don't RTO with the same terrible commute.
A hands-free, stress-free commute will make your whole company more productive.
Get your teams back on site, fresh and ready to work.
"Commuter shuttles" probably makes you picture a luxury coach one big company charters exclusively for its own people at great expense.
Your company can't afford that, and the commute is the employee's problem to solve anyway, right?
What if we solved it — affordably — for both you and your teams?
Commuter shuttles 2.0
In the model prevailing in the Bay Area, employers pay for the whole service, including empty return trips. That's one reason only the giants of Silicon Valley can afford it.
The people building CommuteSource spent years running those programs, and know them inside and out. In this new model, your site becomes a node in a comprehensive network that includes transit; those familiar long-haul coaches only run the corridors trains don't already serve. Smaller shuttles coordinate with trains, ferries, and coaches — at both ends, for complete, door-to-door service. A site far from BART gets the connection it's missing; a site near a station still gains, because we also close the gaps at the other end, where people live.
The vehicles in our network aren't exclusive to you or your site; they don't make empty return trips, and you don't cover the full cost of a service. Riders are our customers, not yours, and they pay a fare — eligible for pre-tax commuter benefits and optional subsidies — so you're only on the hook for as much as you choose, and you never pay for empty seats.
See what we've already got on the commute to your site
Give us your site address and we'll come back within a few days with a free analysis: where available data says the commutes to your site start, and how existing transit compares to driving for each — so you'll know exactly how much leverage we could provide.
You don't have to be big enough for a route on your own.
60 people at one company commuting from across the region can't justify a service — but pool your demand with ten other nearby companies, and a route that was impossible alone becomes real. Even if you're big enough for a route of your own, integrating with our network still gets you more coverage, more flexibility.
Start with a commute survey
Commute programs run on employee surveys, which are a burden even for a dedicated program. Ours is ready to go, secure, and comprehensive. It shows respondents results that compare transit and our services against driving, and can even include your benefits, right where they'll make a difference. And you'll get a report with actionable, aggregated data — never individual survey responses.
Your part is promoting us to your team — that's it. Questions come to us, not your inbox. No overhead, no new program, just an easier way for your people to travel to and from work.
You have to offer something; make it something useful.
Bay Area law requires a commuter benefit at 50 or more employees — 20 or more in San Francisco — and you have to name two commuter benefits coordinators. The Primary Contact has to be an employee of the company, but we can be your second. We'll prepare your registration and annual renewal, draft the notice to your team, keep the records, watch your deadlines, and take the Air District's updates. All you'll need to do is submit it in the portal — only the Primary Contact can — a few minutes, once a year. Everything else is off your plate.
If you subsidize parking and have 50 or more employees, California's parking cash-out law reaches you too — same threshold, same conversation.
Employer-provided shuttle is one of the ways to comply — that's what we're building, and it's a benefit your people will actually use instead of a box you check.
Already running a shuttle? Fold it into our network and get more for less.
Your registration has to be renewed every year. If yours is coming up, now's the time to enlist our help; we can do all the legwork, right up to what the law requires from you.
If it's your name on your company's registration at 511.org, don't go it alone, and don't settle for mere compliance.
Laws, thresholds and pre-tax limits change; this page is not legal advice.
We'll confirm what applies to your company.
Give your team a commute that works.
We're preparing to launch. In the meantime, tell us your site's address and we'll come back within a few days with what our data shows about getting your team there — so you'll know what's possible before you commit to anything.