Microsoft Saves 1.2 Million Hours Annually with Emburse Go Premier

Approximately 5,000 Microsoft Corporation employees are in the air or on the road at any given time, undertaking important business trips. At Seattle-Tacoma Airport, near the company’s headquarters, an average of 200 employees take off or land every hour. Business travel is vital for this global company. To support them, its Global Travel Team chose Emburse to streamline and simplify global business travel and give employees back two hours from each trip, saving at least one million hours each year. They were also keen to achieve cost savings through integrated travel management, shared taxis and other administrative improvements.

Challenges

• Supporting 80,000 regular business travellers
• Managing millions of miles travelled globally each year
• Concerns regarding the travel team’s efficiency and the employees’ travel experience

Results

• Savings of 1.2 million hours per year for travellers
• 10,000 downloads of the MS Travel App in the first three months
• Cost reductions and elimination of inefficiencies
• Simplification and streamlining of the complex travel organisation