SMC rolls out bike plan for employees
The program enables affected employees to avail of bicycles and safety helmets at almost giveaway prices
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has rolled out a program to provide employees and its extended workforce with bicycles as alternative mode of transportation as part of its continuing efforts to ensure safety at workplaces, and provide its workforce convenience amid travel restrictions amid the pandemic.
SMC president Ramon Ang said the program was prompted by a surge in demand for bicycles among employees as the company continues to safely bring its employees back to work to continue essential operations.
The program enables affected employees to avail of bicycles and safety helmets at almost giveaway prices, where a bicycle ranges from P2,000 to P3,000 for high-quality, feature-laden bicycles, which they can then pay with no interest for 12 months. The bulk of the cost for the bicycles is shouldered by SMC.
“While we continuously do mass RT-PCR testing of all 70,000 employees and extended workforce to ensure safety in our facilities and offices nationwide, and even as we observe strict safety and health protocols, we understand there’s also a need to provide convenience and additional safety to many of our workers, when they go to work,” Ang said.
“Right now, our transportation system is still limited, and we see that more of our employees are biking to work. So, we thought to provide them new bicycles. We bought an initial 1,500 units for our facilities in different locations. Almost as soon as we offered them, all were taken. We are now waiting for more units to make available to more employees in more areas,” Ang added.