Cycle to Work Scheme & Working From Home

[spen666]

A bit of a rhetorical question, but ad it understand it, technically understand the Cycle to Work Scheme,

should primarily be used for commuting to and from workplace, but can also be used for other cycling purposes

Now if I work predominantly from home (at least 60% of my time), does my pre work ride count as commute work and did any post work ride.

I may well start and finish at the same location, which also happens to be my workplace at least 3 days a week.

So technically I think that counts as commuting to work.

I said at start it's rhetorical really as no one is going to check up on this

 

[wiggydiggy]

Unfortunately I'd say not, your not using the bike for work. Do I have to ride to work everyday?

> At least 50% of the bike and/or accessories use should be for work purposes. For example, if you used the bike 10 times in a year, at least 5 of those journeys must be work-related.

For me a colleague told me my own employer will refuse applications if you are not based in the office full time, I haven't put an application in since I started WFH.

 

[oxoman]

A lot of companies pay a blind eye to it. And its certainly not policed. If it was hardly anybody apart from hard-core cyclist's would bother using the scheme.

 

[cyberknight]

I agree with @oxoman , not many bother with the rules of the scheme .

 

[Alex321]

Unfortunately I'd say not, your not using the bike for work. Do I have to ride to work everyday?

> At least 50% of the bike and/or accessories use should be for work purposes. For example, if you used the bike 10 times in a year, at least 5 of those journeys must be work-related.

For me a colleague told me my own employer will refuse applications if you are not based in the office full time, I haven't put an application in since I started WFH.

Our company now requires office attendance for 50% of your work time for most of us, and they encourage applications. Though I think they still have the old limit of £1000 in place.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Is a question a question, if it does not end with a ?

 

[wiggydiggy]

Our company now requires office attendance for 50% of your work time for most of us, and they encourage applications. Though I think they still have the old limit of £1000 in place.

£3000 for me, though it didn't change when i was in the office!

I average about 1 day a month - I normally go in if I have errands to run in the city. The next rank up from me has a mandated 2 days in the office so I'm not chasing promotion lol. Off topic but I think WFH has been the greatest gift a company can give, its so much less stressful not dealing with a commute and for me I get back about 2.5 - 3 hours a day I'd otherwise lose commuting. The only upside to the commute was cycling in of course!

 

[MontyVeda]

Most people i know who've got a bike on the C2W do not cycle to work. They just wanted a bike on HP.

 

[spen666]

Unfortunately I'd say not, your not using the bike for work. Do I have to ride to work everyday?

> At least 50% of the bike and/or accessories use should be for work purposes. For example, if you used the bike 10 times in a year, at least 5 of those journeys must be work-related.

For me a colleague told me my own employer will refuse applications if you are not based in the office full time, I haven't put an application in since I started WFH.

I am riding to my workplace though



in any event, my employer has agreed my application, so the last point is not one i need to concern myself with, thankfully and a £10k limit

 

[wiggydiggy]

I am riding to my workplace though



in any event, my employer has agreed my application, so the last point is not one i need to concern myself with, thankfully and a £10k limit

I'd disagree, its a circular trip from your house and back with no stops (except for cake?). But doesn't matter what I think if its approved.