If sustainability matters to you as much as it does to us, you have probably already thought about how to reduce your company’s environmental impact (solar panels, waste management, emissions...). But have you ever considered how much your employees consume every year just to get to the office?
From September 16 to 22, European Mobility Week returned in 2026 with the theme Mobility for Everyone. It is a great opportunity to talk about public transport, cycling, and sustainable mobility, don’t you think?
Here is an important figure to consider. Among employed people, 88% use at least one means of transport, and 70.3% commute to work by car. Only 35.3%, on the other hand, take less than fifteen minutes to reach their destination.
For a company, rethinking employee mobility means working on both fronts. On the one hand, you can reduce avoidable journeys by offering professional workspaces closer to where people live. On the other, you can improve the way necessary journeys are made by encouraging more conscious mobility choices. Keep reading to find out more.
1. Before choosing how to travel, choose the destination
For years, the commute to work followed a fairly predictable pattern: home, company office, home. Hybrid work makes it possible to redesign that journey. A team day can take place at the company headquarters, while for individual tasks, employees can choose a coworking space close to home. Meetings and appointments can also be held near train stations or other transport hubs.
The impact on mobility is direct. Bringing the workplace closer means cutting unnecessary kilometres. Did you know that this shift toward proximity is already reflected in Italian data? In the first half of 2025, the average distance travelled per trip fell to 9.2 kilometres, compared with 11.2 kilometres in 2019. We can do even better!
2. Corporate mobility starts with how work is organized
How many of the journeys generated by your organization are actually necessary? Some will continue to be valuable, such as meeting the team, visiting a client, attending an event, or working together in person. Others can be shortened by choosing a professional workspace closer to home, perhaps even just around the corner. Walking is good for you!
3. What about necessary journeys? We can rethink those too
Shortening distances solves only part of the problem, because business trips, appointments, client meetings, and days at the office will still require travel. That is why a sustainable mobility strategy is essential.
This is where our vision meets that of Mobility Ecolution, a NOTONLYDESK partner specializing in mobility, with a strong focus on digital innovation and environmental sustainability. Through its solutions, Mobility Ecolution helps people choose the mobility option that best suits their different needs.
4. The time saved on commuting goes back to people
There is another benefit that rarely appears in a sustainability report: time. If someone can work from a coworking space close to home, part of the time usually spent in traffic or on public transport becomes available again for their day.
Proximity and mobility therefore also become issues connected to well-being and work-life balance. Choosing where people work also means influencing how they experience their daily lives.
Through a network of coworking spaces distributed across the country, NOTONLYDESK can offer employees professional environments suited to different activities, giving them greater freedom to choose where they work.
We already provide access to more than 235 active locations across every region of Italy, with verified spaces including workstations, meeting rooms, private offices, and areas dedicated to workshops and events.
NOTONLYDESK, NOD, gives you a single dashboard to manage coworking spaces throughout Italy, using Nodey (digital tokens) to book workstations, meeting rooms, or private offices. If you are using smart working, this concerns you.
Discover how NOD works and activate a trial for your team.
Together with partners who share our vision Mobility Ecolution is one of the partners with whom we share a commitment to more sustainable mobility that is closer to people’s needs. Partnerships like this expand the NOTONLYDESK ecosystem and allow us to complement our workplace solutions with a network of specialized and complementary organizations.
Bring work closer to people With NOTONLYDESK, you can offer your team professional workspaces distributed across the country and reduce daily commuting to a single headquarters. Greater proximity means fewer kilometres travelled, more freedom in how people move, and a better work-life balance.
Coworking and workspaces starting from €22 per dayWith NOTONLYDESK you can book coworking spaces, workstations, private offices, and meeting rooms throughout Italy, with solutions starting from €22 + VAT per day and with no city-specific surcharges.
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