For many professionals, travelling is just part of the job. Project managers, sales people, engineers, trade workers, and more all travel frequently for their jobs. As any of them can tell you, it can be tough to be away from family, familiarity, and the comfort of home for so long.
As the employer to travelling employees, you can make it easier for them to work from far and remote locations. You can help them keep living their preferred lifestyles by renting professionally managed, fully furnished apartments for them.
Here are some of the reasons why many employers prefer to take this route as opposed to sticking employees in hotels for weeks or months at a time.
1. More Space
Oftentimes, hotel rooms can feel like closets. Being cooped up in a sterile hotel room for several weeks can feel suffocating. Furnished suites, however, are typically over 200 square feet larger than traditional hotel rooms.
With this extra space, your employees can feel less claustrophobic. They can stretch out, work in style, and even entertain clients.
2. Everything Your Employees Need
Fully furnished apartments are just that—fully furnished. Not only will your employees open their doors to comfortable living room and bedroom furniture, but they’ll also enjoy a furnished workspace, dining area, and even a 5-piece kitchen.
Hotels, on the other hand, often only come with a bed, chair, and tiny table, making it difficult for your employees to live comfortably, store their things, or work and dine in the right spaces. Instead, they’re working on the bed, eating takeout, and living out of suitcases, and this can get old quickly.
3. Save on Takeout
Speaking of a 5-piece kitchen, enabling your employees to cook their own meals has benefits for them as well as for you. They’ll be able to cook meals that make them feel at home and you’ll be able to save considerably on takeout and dine-in breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. As you know, these meals can add up after several weeks, often costing more than the hotel room!
4. Bring Your Pets
Most hotels are pet-free, which can be tough for many of your employees. No one wants to leave behind their furry best friend for weeks or months at a time. No one wants to burden a neighbour or family member with the obligation of taking care of their dog for that period of time, either.
In furnished apartments, employees can bring their pets with them, so they can continue to get the love and support they need from their furry friends and they don’t have to leave them behind, which is hard on everyone involved.
Pet-friendly rooms are available upon request.
5. Customized Options
Regardless of your employees’ travelling needs, you can accommodate them when you choose to rent furnished apartments. Sending one employee out of town for a month? You can get a one-bedroom apartment. Is an employee going out of town for half a year and taking the family? No problem—rent a 3-bedroom apartment, home, or townhome.
There are customized housing solutions to meet all of your needs.
6. All the Benefits of the Hotel
On top of these five benefits, your employees will still get all of the advantages of living in a hotel.
They’ll get clean linens and towels. All suites receive bi-weekly housekeeping services, and all suites come with complimentary Wi-Fi, free local calls, and basic cable. Many of the apartments also feature swimming pools, saunas, fitness centres, and even barbecues and meeting rooms—everything your employees will need while they’re away. Employees will even receive dedicated support from community specialists.
Does it get any better than this?
