Employer-Subsidized Scooter Rides? Yes...If Commutes Ever Return to Normal
Business Wars Daily
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 1:06.5 | Commuting. If you were among the 42% of Americans working from home as of last June, that word may be a |
| 1:13.2 | distant memory for you. But with a vaccine for the coronavirus being rolled out, many in the corporate |
| 1:18.5 | world are hopeful that by the middle of this year, folks will be safely back in the workplace, |
| 1:23.3 | and that means getting back in the car, back on the bus, and back on the train. Or on a scooter. |
| 1:29.6 | That's right. |
| 1:30.6 | Micromobility devices, those lightweight electric transporters like e-scooters, |
| 1:35.6 | were having a moment right before the pandemic sent most workers home. |
| 1:39.8 | And when offices shut down, companies like Lyme, which rents both scooters and bicycles to commuters, |
| 1:45.6 | suffered. The New York Times reported that consumer spending on scooter rentals |
| 1:49.8 | fell the most of all modes of transportation in the first several weeks of the pandemic. |
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