From Pop-Up Policies to Bio-Safety Wellness — Managing Corp Travel Takes On New Complexities
Photo Credit: Happy travelers from Singapore's Energy Drilling Management, who are using International SOS's new ICC AOKpass — an app that stores an individual's Covid-19 test result. International SOS
Skift Take
Coronavirus has accelerated a range of latent travel trends over the past six months, most related to technology. Now you can add traveler well-being to that list.
Many international organizations have, quite rightly, reacted to the pandemic with a renewed focus on their employees’ safety and well-being.
But some of these new wellbeing pushes, which tend to be associated with the risks the deadly Covid-19 virus can pose when traveling, may end up finding a permanent home in the company travel policy. Because in the same way the pandemic has accelerated virtual technology adoption, among other areas, it’s highlighting the importance of looking after the traveler.
A lot of work was admittedly already being carried out around wellbeing, and mental health in particular, by companies before Covid, but as travel slowly returns it’s back on the radar as they work on policies that will be fit for purpose in the coronavirus era and beyond.
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