Avis introduces employee loyalty schemes

AVIS is to introduce a batch of measures to help improve employee loyalty and commitment in the company.

UK managing director Luke Medley told members of the Guild of Business Travel Agents at their annual conference in Singapore that Employee Participation Groups would shortly be introduced in the UK, as would a long-term bonus scheme.

EPGs had already shown results in Avis’s Australian operation, he said, and would allow the company’s UK workforce to have a say over company direction.

“We open up the books to employees and get their input about the way forward,” Medley explained. “Effective change is not what you do to people, but what you do with people. And it’s fairly obvious that the point of differentiation of any industry is its people.”

Medley is also planning to introduce an incentive scheme that places a position-related bonus payment in a fund but does not allow employees access to it for five years, thereby securing their commitment to the company.