Good employers want their employees to be productive while holding down salaries and overhead costs per employee. This entails hiring the best employees for the money that they can and keeping them healthy and happy. Particlarly in these times of global competition, employers need to find ways of keeping costs down.

SkyTran helps by:

Shortening Commute Time
Skytran is faster than any other mode for commutes exceeding a mile. (You can bike shorter distances faster. A skytran car can hold a person and a bike, though bike sharing programs like Paris' new scheme may provide greater synergy.) Saving the employee time means they have more time for work, or at least more time to get the rest of their life together so that they can work more effectively.

Broadening the Applicant Pool
Because of SkyTran's speed and ease, it will enable workers to commute from greater distances for the same amount of travel time. This extends the volume of potential employees that a company can draw upon. Of course this also increases the nm ber of companies competing for those workers. But by optimizing the matching of best workers for each particular job overall businesses will be more productive per salary dollar.

Allowing People to Work While Commuting
For Information workers, a SkyTran car becomes a miniature private office. With smooth operation, web access, quite and privacy, the Skytran car has less distractions than the average office. Even if a SkyTran commuter doesn't work while commuting, they are likely to arrived more relaxed, rather than 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 the employee pays for parking or the employer does, its a SkyTran benefit to both to not 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, take maintenance and force employees to brave a 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 (especially in dense urban areas) that cars can't match. 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. 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. And it's arriving none too soon.