Smart Commute Week 2008 - The Highlights Video

During Smart Commute Week 2008, cameras followed a selection of the many local organisations - large and small, in the public, private and voluntary sectors - who ran their own initiatives in support of the 2008 MATiSSE Smart Commute Week. You can now make your own smart-commuting and smart-working move, by taking a look at this 15 minute film produced by Smart Commute Week sponsors Signalize to find out what a ferry, a chicken, a river, a greenhouse, a folding-bike and a bus have in common. You'll also find out how YOUR organisation can get involved in the 2009 Smart Commute Week initiative.
NB If you are using a more modest broadband link, pause the film for a minute or so to ensure the download marker keeps ahead of your viewing

Smart Commute Week - the Best Yet!

Two-hundred plus local organisations pro-actively supported last week's Smart Commute Week (3rd to 7th Nov) with their own in-company 'smarter-commuting and smarter-working' initiatives, an increase of nearly 50% over 2007. You can watch the highlights in video form via the website from Monday 17th Nov
Ocean FM. in addition to promoting Smart Commute Week even changed their programme schedule on Smarter/Flexible Working Day (6th Nov). East Hampshire District Council staff walked to their Petersfield meetings on Business Travel Reduction Day whilst countless thousands of employees simply left the car behind, worked from home or car-shared as part of the Smart Commute Week 'one in five challenge'.
Meantime the five daily Smart Commute Week Live webcasts are estimated to have saved .39 tonnes of CO2. The webcast highlights are now available for viewing - click on the link below.
Finally, thanks to everyone who took part and a special thank you to the Smart Commute Week sponsors HCC, WSP, Business Link, Ozone Conferencing, Stagecoach Bus and Signalize.
eHampshire Smart Commute Week team.

UPDATE - MATiSSE Smarter Working Cost Savings CALculator

Following the launch of the prototype CALculator in June, the eHampshire Partnership, along with co-developers CAL, are pleased to now announce the availability of Version 1 of the MATiSSE Smarter Working cost saving CALculator.
The new version incorporates prototype user feedback in the form of fine tuning and enhancements to the user-interface and improvements to the personalised cost-savings emailed report.
Continued high fuel and energy costs plus staff office-workstation costs in excess of £5,000 per annum coupled with the economic slow-down means there could not be a better time to discover the business bottom-line savings potential of Smarter, more sustainable working practices. We invite you to Click on the link below and try the CALculator NOW. You'll be amazed at how much you can save!

Calculate the Costs of Ill Health to YOUR business

According to research conducted by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and supported by the latest Central Government estimates, stress and mental health related problems cost the UK economy in the order of £12.25 billion per annum. In total, it is estimated that the staggering figure of £77.5 billion per annum is lost to health related problems.

These figures together with the impact on families, communities and the Health and Social care system, help emphasise the need for the topic of ‘employee-wellbeing’ to be a key component of the move to Smarter-Working.
To calculate the cost of Ill Health to your business click on the link below whilst remembering that Britons work longer hours (in excess of 46) than any of their European counterparts.