Interesting to hear ideas from other employers.We’re a small business with less than 20 employees. When I was the only one that rode, I put my bike in my office and showered at the local community centre. Now we have a staff room with its own entrance so indoor bike racks, shower, lockers, bike pump. Bike shop 2 blocks away4 of us now ride regularly and I found out today that our newest employee plans to ride so I’ll be adding another rack. A 6th person is learning to ride so he can bike to work next summer (I'm impressed!). BTW, I should add… I’m now the boss.

UPDATE (Nov 5): Just a few days after my post, one of our employees was hit by a car at an intersection while riding to work along the greenway that runs through the city and passes a block from us. A broken arm so he'll be off work for awhile. I'm so relieved that it wasn't worse!

Yeah, that would help!

Northern California. It's time to put the fenders on again. I must be a year older.

Apologies, I wasn't as clear as I'd intended. The institution pays employees $3 per day if they ride. And the bike hanger in my building is free, behind a locked badge-access door. If you don't work here, you ain't coming in.

You might think that; do you have knowledge of any actual "subsidies or tax-writeoffs in dense cities for companies that encourage biking?"

A couple things I forgot in my earlier post:
1. The room with showers and lockers also had a spin dryer, which was handy if you got soaking wet in a downpour on the way in to work. Gotta love PNW weather.
2. There was a bike mechanic who set up "shop" in the parking lot once a week. That lasted less than a year tho. Likely it was not profitable for him. Not employer subsidized other than allowing use of a couple parking spaces.

Well, the best benefit is that I am in Southern California. Weather is great but a car-centric environment and thus not many bike commuters. With that I have experienced various ways the employer deals with commuters. From nothing but a bathroom to clean-up in to a caged bike area that is opened with the door key card. The last place, I would park outside in view of security. They also had showers and lockers. I think it was more for the folks that would play basketball across the street.

In Los Angeles you would think more people would ‘cycle due to nice weather and get out of traffic. But there isn’t much incentives from employers so bike commuting tends to be rare.

I don't know specifics. I do recall from many years past, some cities failing EPA air quality standards, but I cannot recall if they were fined. Yeah, that may not square with a private business doing the polluting and not the city. I'll probably remember one of the cities about three days from now.

Here's an article on tighter standards, but mentions zero about consequences if standards are not met:

https://apnews.com/article/wildfires...9b35a260ade6fe

So yes, in order for there to be financial incentives to encourage bike commuting, there needs to be financial costs to the polluting that are great enough to encourage biking, and the biking needs to be able to make a difference.

Better to be safe than sorry, right? Plus, it’s not like locking it up takes much extra effort.