Tusker onboards over 300 companies to help deliver their long-term sustainability goals

In the last eight months, major financial services, energy and infrastructure groups have engaged Tusker to provide a car benefits scheme to bolster long-term sustainability and meet their ESG objectives.

Over 300 companies have launched a Tusker salary sacrifice scheme so far in 2022, many of whom have been motivated by a desire to reduce their carbon footprint.

Already popular with a variety of businesses for numerous reasons including staff retention and attraction, motivation, offering a sought-after benefit and more, the increased sustainability offered by Tusker’s schemes have proved popular with many more companies in 2022.

Tusker not only offers the scheme with the associated ESG benefits but also the ease of on boarding, where multiple teams are involved in a scheme’s set-up.

With decades of experience behind Tusker, it can work directly with procurement teams alongside the HR teams, finance teams and ultimately the senior management within bigger corporations to ensure a smooth uptake of their hugely popular benefit.

Tusker provides clear process maps and uses its experience in working across multiple teams to ensure that the launch of a Tusker benefits scheme is a streamlined process. Tusker handles most of the administration and ensures that workflows are always managed efficiently.

Better still, on top of the administrative benefits, for corporations looking to extend car benefits packages to as many employees as possible, thanks to the innovative way in which Tusker’s salary sacrifice car scheme is structured, it is possible to include any eligible employees, across both tax bands.

With traditional company car schemes, it can be difficult to restrict emissions across a policy, especially if employees take a car-for-car option. With a Tusker scheme, it is possible to restrict a policy to hybrid and electric vehicles only, although, thanks to the tax advantages offered by the low Benefit-in-Kind (BiK) rates on hybrid and EVs, most drivers opt for such vehicles anyhow.

This dramatically reduces the carbon footprint of the company car fleet, but it also brings financial advantages for employees on the scheme, who can save money on income tax via the low BiK rates.

Sally Purbrick, Anglia Water’s Head of Employee Rewards said, “Anglian Water takes a holistic view of its company benefits and from the outset were keen on the ESR, environmental and sustainability benefits offered by the Tusker scheme.

“We have been pleased with the engagement and uptake and that it is making a genuine difference to our employees’ contribution towards the environment, while contributing to their financial wellbeing,” she added.

Paul Gilshan, CEO at Tusker comments, “We have seen a big rise in the number of companies for whom reducing their carbon output has become more of a priority and in offering the car benefit scheme, it supports their employees and helps achieve this objective. More people can drive an EV on our car scheme than if they were to organise a car independently thanks to the low benefit in kind tax the scheme attracts. It also helps employers retain staff, too, which is topical at the moment.”