Does your place of work offer car parking?

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Got me thinking due to a huge parking drama at work these last few days.

We have a main car park & all bays are for managers only. We then have an overflow car park that fits 35 cars only we now have way more staff than it can fit hence me ending up leaving mine outside a shop & walking 25 minutes into work which actually i didnt mind in the morning but pain in the arse when i finished & got home 30 minutes or so later.

So does yours? Should it if not?
Not

Yes, free parking and generally enough spaces for everyone in a gated area.
We have shower facilities for anyone that bikes in.

One job I worked had a tiny car park, and some 2 hour on-street bays. Irritatingly, I could easily have walked to work in 25 mins, but I needed to go out 4-5 times a day for appointments. So the car was essential (they recruited people who could drive!) but parking was a nightmare. I think if driving is part of the job, easy parking should be provided.

I really feel for NHS staff. At the hospital where I give blood, it took me 45 mins to get through the internal roads because of the queue for the car park. There’s a separate blood one and staff one, but you literally can’t access them without being part of the queue for the patients’ one, which is madness.

In my last job before I retired I was in a car share. We had guaranteed free parking every day because one of the sharers was disabled. If that hadn't been the case it would have been on a first come first served basis with insufficient spaces for all those who wanted a place. People used to arrive at 7am to grab a space when the usual start time was 8.30/9am because parking off site within walking distance was pretty much non existent.

Yes, we have a car park and it's free. But we have more employees than spaces, so there is a waiting list and each time someone leaves, their space gets given to the person at the top of that list. I finally got a space allocated to me 17 months after I started here. There are several other car parks (paid and free) within a 10-minute walk of the office, so not too terrible if you don't have a space.

NHS here too.

People are actually leaving the service because of the parking issue. Seems petty, but getting to work late if you don't leave a hour earlier for a 7am shift starts to get to you after a while. As does getting a ticket if you don't park in a staff spot, and of course there are never enough spots. Community nurses can just forget it.
No park and ride running at beginning or end of long shifts. Short shifts not allowed etc etc.

Portsmouth hospital has its own P&R which is good, but a ballache after a long day. Most hospitals have the same problem tho.

I think the problem is they have centralised services at hospitals without really considering how everyone is supposed to travel to the hospitals

Yes, free, but not quite enough spaces for everyone. Luckily I realised early on that if I parked on the road outside, and took the time to turn around in the morning so I was facing the way I need to leave, it's quicker than trying to get out of the road the car park is on (because I join the main road at a roundabout instead of a busy junction). I love strategic parking!

I have street parking in a residential area.
If i have to go to the offices in town I use public car parks and get my parking money reimbursed.

Yes but I work very rurally (think old converted farm) where there is literally no other way of getting there other than by car or bike. There isn't really enough room for us all so we just block each other in and move if needed to. Thankfully it's a very friendly place so that's not a problem.

No. Central London though, so nobody would drive anyway. We have a secure cycle storage area in the basement.

No. It's a pita, very expensive and the office move happened after I started so it wasn't something I accepted as part of the job.

I've never worked anywhere that didn't have parking. We've just had a revamp of our car park because a public car park right next door is no longer accessible to us. We're supposed to have allocated spaces but in reality it's car Tetris every day.

Yes there is a car park and at the moment it is sufficient, however, it is long and thin so around 40% of spaces are paired so one person parks another in. These are allocated to people ending at the same times to the best of

I work in central London. I don't know anyone who drives in. I think we do have a couple of spaces under our building but they are rarely used - maybe by the occasional client with a driver or by workmen doing stuff in the office.

Yes and its free, there are not quite enough spaces though so hard to nip out at lunchtime as someone will get in the space or get in later (we are on flexitme)

Yep. Free and completely secure, in summer I can leave my windows open and the doors unlocked

Current work: Lots but not infinite spaces that cost £2-£5/day (depending which ones). 5-15 min. walk. The reliably empty carpark is also extra 10+ minutes drive to reach. I usually cycle from train station.

Soon work: £20/month to pay for privilege of a carpark 10-15 minutes walk away. Even though there are 250 spaces right in front of our building (

University here...we have a car park, costs £3.80 a day at the moment, rising to £4.50 in January. I have a 90 mile round trip commute so no option but to use it.

free car park here but I work in middle of nowhere :)

My ex-partner was once a college teacher. The college provided a car park but it cost a lot of money and you had to pay in advance for the amount of hours you would want. They subcontracted the car park management to a b***d private company that was predatory about issuing and enforcing parking fines. What this meant in practice is that if he was delayed getting away at the end of the day, eg if a student asked for a chat after class, even if this meant he was 2 minutes over the 'paid for' time, he would get a 70 quid fine. This happened often, meaning he was basically paying for the privilege of working there. The amount payable jumped up steeply with each additional hour so he didn't want to just pay for an extra hour in advance, 'just in case'. Personally I thought the college were taking the piss and indeed, ex-partner did give up working there, partly due to this and other employee abuses.

No free parking here but then I don't drive _ plymouth

Ours is charged but also has a 14 year waiting list!

We have a free car park with more spaces than needed. We are on a business park on the outskirts of town, and some of the other building here don't have enough spaces. So some of our spaces have been rented out to another business.

We have a tiny car park (fits 6 cars), and is allocated to permanent staff in order of seniority (most of our staff are temporary). I just managed to squeak a place, but think I may be pushed out when someone starts back, which is going to be tricky, as I don't have any other option than to drive (live rurally, work in a city). I suspect I'll be allowed a parking permit if this happens (city has permit restricted parking).

No - Central London, I think there might be an exception for blue badge holders, but most staff take public transport. I know two people who drive and they pay for on-street parking.