Good employers want their employees to be productive, healthy and motivated, while holding down costs in these challenging economic times. How can SkyTran help?

Shortening Commute Time
Skytran is faster than any other mode of ground transportation for commutes longer than 1 mile. (You can bike shorter distances faster. The rear of the vehicle can hold normal bike with the front wheel popped off, or a folding bike or electric scooter. Where bike sharing programs like Paris' new scheme are available, bringing your own is unnecessary.) Saving employees time means they have more time for work and the rest of their life; both help them work more effectively.

Broadening the Applicant Pool
Because of SkyTran's speed and convenience, it will enable workers to commute from greater distances for the same travel time. This will greatly increase the number of potential employees that a company can draw upon. If they can commute twice as far, then to a first approximation that quadruples the number of potential employees. Of course, it also quadruples the number of companies competing for those workers. Optimizing the match of workers and jobs should allow more specialized careers, which tends to make work more productive.

Allowing People to Work While Commuting
For Information workers, a SkyTran vehicle becomes a miniature private office. With smooth operation, web access, quiet and privacy, Skytran has less distractions than the average office. Even if a SkyTran commuter doesn't work while commuting, they are likely to arrived more relaxed, not nerve-racked from a congested commute or packed subway.

Decreasing the Need for Parking
In the city parking is hard to find and expensive. Whether an employee currently pays for parking or their employer does, with SkyTran neither of them will have to pay for parking at all. In large facilities that have their own parking lots outside the city, those lots use a lot of real estate, require maintenance, and force employees to walk through "parking lot traffic" in poor weather. SkyTran can get walking distance to small companies and for large ones, a SkyTran stop can be built inside the building.

Providing Reliability
Even a well-maintained car can break down unexpectedly. Not only does a maglev SkyTran vehicle have far fewer moving parts, but if you see a problem with one vehicle, you can just send it off to the maintenance depot and get into the next one. No more lost hours of work due to a dead car battery, flat tire or accident on the way to work.

Decreasing the Costs of Health Care
Automobiles are very unsafe -- for young adults they are the #1 cause of death and disability. SkyTran is far safer than the safest automobile. Not only will health insurance rates in general decline with SkyTran adoption, but employer and employee alike might get a discount if the employees don't own a car.

Saving Money
Employers that provide company cars for employees will have less need to do so once a SkyTran grid services their area. SkyTran offers the privacy of a car, the calmness and productivity of a chauffeured limousine, and a speed that cars can't match (especially in dense urban areas). For employees that would normally be forced to have their own car, reducing the thousands of dollars a year a car costs helps the employee spend their money on a higher quality of life in other areas.

SkyTran holds the promise of raising employees' disposable incomes by reducing their transportation costs, while actually reducing pressure for higher wages to cover the cost of living. (Talk about a stimulus plan!) The massive economic potential to squeeze the waste out of today's transportation systems will benefit everyone.

Such beneficial revolutions in transportation technology have happened before with railroads, cars and airplanes. (200 years ago, for instance, people thought riding 12 mph in a train would cause incredible social instability. Instead, it caused incredible social prosperity.) SkyTran is simply the next generation in transportation innovation. And it's arriving none too soon.