Benify and Athlon Introduce a Flexible Mobility Solution in the Netherlands

Stockholm, April 24, 2017 — HR-tech company Benify and mobility provider Athlon launch a new mobility proposition in the Netherlands, which allows employees to distribute their mobility benefit according to their personal needs and preferences. The system encourages employees to make eco-friendly and efficient choices in order to travel from point A to point B— while not limiting their mobility options.

The new, flexible benefit provides employees with a yearly commuting budget to cover the costs of their transportation preferences, and it allows employees to take advantage of the full scope of mobility options Athlon offers. Unused allotted mileage is awarded as a bonus and can be traded for other worksite benefits available to the employee. By presenting this new solution, Athlon and Benify are meeting the increasingly higher demands and ambitions that both employers and employees hold for their mobility benefit. The arrangement empowers the employee to receive moral, as well as, tangible rewards, and it helps employers meet their financial and sustainability goals.

Increased Demand for Individualized, Cost-Conscious Mobility Benefits

The collaboration between Benify and Athlon allows Dutch employers to reduce their costs by ensuring the popular mobility benefit is used appropriately and in a way that makes the most sense per individual employee. A person living in walking distance to his or her employer may not need a company lease car, and with the usual program rules, could wind up taking on the lease agreement anyway, using up monthly mileage and gasoline with a “use it or lose it” mentality.

“The flexibility puts an end to waste and actually becomes more useful for the employee,” says Markus Kullendorf, CEO of Benify. “This new design takes a popular benefit and infuses it with the flexibility that we have come to learn employees really want. For example, with an employee living close to work, he or she may opt to cash in his or her mobility allowance or spend just some of it on train or bus tickets; as the employee’s situation changes- moving to a suburb or needing a family sized car, for example- the benefit can be applied to meet new needs.”

Shifting Employer and Employee Needs

Melissa van Gestel, Country Manager of Benify Netherlands states: “Lease cars have been part of our client discussions for 12 years as one of the most important but also most expensive employee benefits. By putting some trends together such as: needs for reducing the CO² footprint; demands for flexible choices for employees; and introduction of new ways of transportation, we identified that our SaaS technology is extremely suitable to meet shifting market needs. Now, employers can offer more modern and cost-efficient mobility solutions.“

Van Gestel continues, “At the time that our roads crossed with Athlon, we identified the same opportunity in their market. We now have created a solution that is unique in the market due to the integration between HR & Mobility. All other solutions in the market are stand-alone mobility solutions that limit themselves to that. We are so proud to be able to present together the Athlon Mobility Budget, giving employees real value and the flexibility that they deserve.”

The Athlon Mobility Budget is available through the Benify compensation and benefits portal to employers and their employees in the Netherlands. This mobility solution will also be introduced in other European countries, beginning with Germany.

About Athlon

Athlon is an international provider of operational vehicle leasing and mobility solutions. It continuously develops and offers innovative, sustainable, and cost-efficient mobility solutions. Athlon wants to be the best provider of vehicle leasing and mobility solutions for the ever-changing needs of its clients in more than 20 countries. For more information, please visit www.athlon.com.

About Benify

Benify was founded with the aim of keeping the Human in Human Resources. Our compensation and benefits platform allows HR managers to best communicate to and with employees and empowers engagement strategies and employer branding initiatives. For employees, we provide transparency and control in regards to their compensation and benefits, allowing them to see and appreciate the true value of their total reward while providing them a daily destination to interact with company culture- and stay motivated.

Benify is a fast-growing, independent HR tech leader helping companies around the world manage their employee benefits offering and build a strong employer brand. Through its cloud based total compensation and benefits portal, Benify makes it Great at Work for millions of employees worldwide in 30 countries and 20 languages— and counting. The smart solution helps employees to appreciate their total reward and to participate in work life while enabling easy and convenient benefits administration for employers throughout the employee lifecycle.

The result: effective benefits governance, targeted communications, and increased employee engagement.

Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Benify has been empowering human resource strategies since 2004.

Learn more about Benify by visiting Twitter, LinkedIn and its blog. www.benify.com

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