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Passengers can carry more aboard business aircraft than they can on the airlines, including sensitive materials.
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Employee work agendas aboard business aircraft initially are ad hoc. With practice, they evolve to become planned, and then are institutionalized.
Corporate Shuttles
Eight Flights Daily
Twice every morning and evening, Scott Stallard, general manager and
a turboprop leaves San Jose on a vice president of HP’s Network Division
round trip to Roseville, a suburb of (where business is “awesome”) has
Sacramento. Onboard are engineering flown on HP’s shuttle “about two or
and administrative staffers for Hewlett- three thousand times” over 25 years,
so he knows it well.
Scheduled air service between “You first have to
understand why HP
company facilities or customers.
exists on multiple
sites and then that Packard, moving between the compa-the shuttle is an enabler to tie them ny’s two largest California operations together,” he says. “What you realize or just commuting to work from about Roseville is that there is a lower home. cost of living for people and lower attrition and higher maturity rates for employees, so there was a business need to set up operations outside of the [San Francisco/San Jose] Bay Area.
“Having said that, you wind up being linked back to the Bay area to either deal with partnered entities or HP’s organization here. So there’s a real business need for our people to collocate, to be in both places.
“We tried teleconferencing and everything else but, ultimately, there is a role for actually being there. There’s an awful lot of networking, and influence, and driving to decisions that go on for a lot of the major R&D programs that go on between Roseville and the Bay Area.
“But I think that the real measure is benefit versus cost. I mean, we have people who are the best at what they do who would have never taken these jobs in the first place without the shut-tle. It’s absolutely a recruitment aide.” Necessary in a cannibalistic labor market he says. “Oh, my gosh. The attrition rate in the Bay Area is about three times what it is in Roseville. It’s a huge factor for us.”
And as far as travel time savings are concerned, “Usually we’re getting back that time in the form of work. It’s not like they’re getting home early. We’re getting a long day out of people when they use the shuttle. It’s pretty much an enabler, because if we miss a flight, it’s a five-hour drive.”
And what do people do on the airplane? “They work. I noticed this morning that about three-fourths of them were doing e-mail on their porta-bles. They discuss work-related items given that there’s no issues of confi-dentiality – it’s actually an office.”
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