Just wondering what kinds of things your employer does to support you cycling to/from work, if anything?

What kinds of facilities to they provide, if any, for secure bike storage, showering/changing, etc. ?

Are they proactive about encouraging cycling to work, or do they just kinda accept it? Have you had to advocate for yourself a bit, have you faced any resistance in this regard? Do any of your bosses cycle, or are YOU the boss?
Have you noticed a boss who cycles having a positive impact for employees to cycle?

Do they provide any incentive to cycle to work like as a company image/sustainability thing? For example I have heard a story of a company in Toronto that reportedly paid double the mileage rate for employees who cycled to/from work
if employees cycled to/from business meetings after they cycled to work. Anyone have anything wild in their contract, union, or private about cycling to/from work, perhaps perks, supports, benefits, etc. ?

Feel free to include past employers or other employers, perhaps of friends/family you have heard of in this regard, especially if you have heard anything noteworthy!

ZERO support, although I haven't worked in a long time. I was a white-collar professional. They were not big bike cities. In fact, in one place for a couple years, I read that Seattle was the healthiest city in the USA, and my city in the east was the WORST in terms of diet, smoking, exercise, etc. No showers or changing facilities. I would shower in the morning and bike in, changed in the bathroom, wiped down with paper towels with watered down isopropyl alcohol on them, dressed, worked, changed and biked home. My road race bike just fit in the back of my cubicle. The job previous to that, I never biked to work though easily within my range, as no good bike route, busy traffic and no paved shoulders. I'd get home early enough in the warm half of the year to bike 55km after work. In the colder, darker months, I brought my bike into work and would bike before lunch along sidestreets and then eat, staying later at work to make up the hours. They tolerated it, no one sought to join me.

My previous job I was allowed to park inside the building and hang my clothes in an unused office.

At my current job a previous employee parked their bike outside. I asked to park inside and was told I could park it in my office, where I use a standing,portable wardrobe to hang my clothes.

There were no showers at either company.

My employer provides a locking bike room with racks for up to 16 bikes plus a small amount of floor space; A locker room with 3 shower rooms and separate restroom; A large counter with sink, mirrors, washer-dryer. (Note: the building was recently renovated. Previously there were outdoor bike lockers and a single shower.) In addition, one can record the number of bike commutes on their time sheets. If one records at least 4 bike commutes within a two-week period, one receives $15 extra on their pay check. My employer also provides partial subsidies for public transit (all local transit agencies provide at least some bike transport space). On the flip-side, my employer offers $20 for the same number of carpooling events, free parking on-site and a tax-exempt flexible spending plan for paid parking up to the IRS allowable limit.

(above) That's a good employer. What region or state?

When I came here 17 years ago (yikes) there was a shower in this building and it's still the same shower. The gym moved closer as the facility downsized. There were lockers at the old gym but they were in use for PPE. A few years ago when they took down the guard shack they gave us some bike lockers but I don't think anyone uses them. I have done when it was really muddy. We can keep bikes in our cubicles, the cubes are big enough, but there's plenty of other places to stash one and nobody will bother it. Policy says we are supposed to wear helmets on campus but it's not like anyone is checking. We are off a spur of the ARBT and a lot of people ride in, though who and when changes a lot.

There are some kinds of employers in NYC that have to provide indoor bike parking, but I'm not sure what the criteria are.

Even better than that is that at some workplaces, I was able to lean my bike against my desk or wherever it fit in the office. I really appreciated that.

At my last job, they said they were not able to accommodate me at all. I don't like locking my bike in public, of course, but I did. There was a city-provided bike rack in front of the public library. Nothing ever happened to my bike there, so it worked out.

We have a locked bike shed in the parking lot, with limited swipe card access. Showers and lockers, primarily for shop employees, but I'm allowed to use it and keep a locker as long as one's available.

No women's lockers or showers. Very 1970s of them. Or maybe 1950s.

It's varied by location. When I worked at my company office, I was allowed to park the bike in my office (best case). At customer sites, a couple had "wheel bender" racks (worst case), I parked in a stair well for a while, and advocated for bike lockers and got some bike shelters at a new site. Two shelters with cramped space for a total of 12 bikes were provided for a work force of some 4,000-5,000 people, if you want the scope. They were rarely full.

Three of five locations had showers. The other two I used the shower at home, ride in, and wipe off and change in the handicap stalls approach.

Drying damp or full on wet bike clothes has been a challenge. It was great to hang bike clothes on the back of an office door. In cubicles, it depended on air flow. Some I could hang on jacket hangers along an empty cube wall. The worst required hanging clothes at the cube entrance to reduce the dampness at the end of the day. Paradoxically, that situation was the best social acceptance. Curiosity was always there; "did you ride your bike in TODAY when it's so hot/cold/rainy?" Well, yes. It's what I almost always do.

Thanks for typing all this up for me! Wow, a nice, parallel world we've been commuting in!

At my current place of 22 years, I initially joined a handful of others and brought my bike in the 14 story building, competing with folks on the elevator going up to my 12th floor cube. My bike was parked alongside my cube in a wide aisle. One day someone from security came hollering at me, "I finally found you! Bikes aren't allowed in the building! They're a fire hazard!" I dumped my diatribe into an email and sent it to my manager just to vent and move on. There were no racks outside, which meant having to secure it to whatever we could find.

A week later, I got an email from my manager saying that 10 bike lockers were being installed on the patio outside an employee entrance. He had sent my email up the chain to our VP and well....

I've been working from home for four years now. A year ago when I had to drive to the mothership for some reason, I noticed the (then) 20 bike lockers were gone.

Working for the same employer for a long time. The last couple of buildings I parked my bike inside near where I worked. This building has less room. My bike is usually parked in a storage room off the dock.

My last employer didn't provide any incentives or support beyond letting me park my bike in the building. I bought a dollar store over-the-door hooks and hung my riding clothes on the backside of a door. I kept a washcloth at work to rinse the sweat off. The Executive Director, who worked in another building elsewhere in town, was car-free and rode an impressively tricked-out recumbent everywhere; I had asked for a bike locker or something so I wouldn't have to roll my occasionally wet bike through the building; instead he installed a wall-hanging bike rack in the spot where I parked; close enough, I guess. Sadly it wasn't enough to encourage anyone else to ride.

I parked in my shop in a controlled access facility. They would also drive me to get my car if they wanted me to work an emergency repair that was work until it was done, which could mean 10-12 hours later.

Current job (near Portland) has one shower for men, one for women. I removed some desktops from my cube which allows my bike to fit comfortably. My employer just removed the outdoor bike rack which literally nobody used. My manager encourages me to ride. So it is an okay arragement. Once in a great while there is another bike commuter but most days it's just me.

Last job (near Seattle) had some other cyclists. Showers saw a lot of use. They remodelled and really stepped up for bike commuters, with nice showers and new lockers. indoor bike parking and catered (and subsidized) breakfast and lunch. Regular bike commuters were allowed to put a lock on a locker. I noticed after the changes there were suddenly twice as many bike commuters. It was an ideal setup in many ways.

My employer is in a medium size city between Milwaukee and Chicago. They provide two bike racks outside and one wall-mounted rack inside, for the people who feel their bike is valuable enough to warrant the trouble to bring it in. I lock up at a rack just outside the door I enter the building through.

They have a security guard patrolling the property 24/7, so theft isn't an issue. Sometimes, I forget the key to my lock and just leave it there at the rack.

No showers, so I take my eBike most of the time. Between that, my 2 mile commute and the rack right next to the door, it's faster to ride in than to drive!

Here's my old 1972 Varsity locked up at that rack.

My employer doesn't necessarily supply these, but my site of employment has bike racks and bike lockers. There is a locker room with shower just across the hall from my office. These have been there long term before the joint partnership of the site owner and the other half of my company formed. Although I believe such features are likely available at our other sites.

Unfortunately I have yet to use them in the 14 or so months I've been there as the MUP is too dark when I go to work and alternate routes from my home are not great either.

Powerful lights these days are dirt cheap (for what used to cost 10X as much 20 years ago). Before getting a name brand one like a NightRider (headlight and taillight set, cheap in the return bin at REI because the buyer didn't read the instruction on how to "unlock" it, worked perfect), I used a brand-x one off amazon, flamethrower with two powerful LEDs with separate reflectors and mount, and a big Li-Ion battery mounted separate, and charger, for about $20 pre-pandemic.

I normally don't bike in the dark but in case I get caught out after dark, I keep a NR 500 and taillight in the trunk bag as each's rubber band mount goes on or off in two seconds. I'll deploy a bigger NR or the dual big light if I need more power. All have long run times at the level I usually use, or a couple hours at high output.

This was worth more than a Like. Bike headlights are AMAZING these days. You can get a svelte little (and expensive) Bontrager from the bike shop or a big honkin' one from Amazon. One thing to watch for on Amazon: don't just go by some brightness figure they throw out there. They often will put two or more LEDs in one light, but doing that doesn't necessarily double the output as you see it. Likewise, the beam photos can be deceptive, as the exposure of the image can be manipulated. Go more by customer review; don't consider anything with less than 4*.

Most people in my bike club are VERY nervous about riding even during dusk. But I notice they have *****ty lights. Just these little cheap & nasty little flashers for $10. I'd be scared too!

I have very good lights, just not a good route. Even with lights. Then the traffic is worse at quitting time. I think these factors are why nobody uses the bike lockers or showers. One of the parent companies has offices downtown and there are probably 2 dozen bike lockers there so I think there are more people that ride to work there.

Being the only one who'd ride at 4am through the hood to work there wasn't much incentive by the company to put in infrastructure for us. They did send out a coworker in a company truck to get me when I put a screw thru my rim. No showers but being a garbageman I didn't offend anybody, lol. They wanted to buy me a new bike when I retired until I showed them a picture of my bikes lined across the garage. Kind of miss those cold, silent rides in the dark.

Yeah it was the same for me just out of college; I would drive home and bike 35 miles 6-8 months; Work was only 8 miles each way, but no safe route, just busy two-lanes and lots of wide trucks. In Europe they have bike paths all over the place.

I work in a casino in a light-industrial area, right next to a homeless shelter that is only active in the wintertime, but there is still a significant homeless population in the area and the parking lot has seen a slew of break-ins, usually from organized crime. My employer lets me park inside of the loading dock, and I lock my bike up to a forklift. I probably don't need to lock it up, given that it is a casino, but meh. Otherwise, nothing.

You do need to lock it to the forklift. Substance abuse issues have greatly increased crime and most especially bike theft and car prowls in areas where it was previously low. However if a potential thief has seen the movie Casino, they might not thieve on casino premises. But that doesn't sound like 'Vegas, so you better lock it up. No bike is safe beyond a minute with cheap angle grinders.

Ample covered bike parking, and an outdoor "bike valet" as well. $3 per day to ride. My building has a bike hanging area behind a badge-access door.

$3 a day M-F is $60 a month, that's not cheap. Given traffic and air quality issues, I would think that there are subsidies or tax-writeoffs in dense cities for companies that encourage biking. I hope the bike hanging area is free.