Herdy for Employers
Help employees share journeys, reduce solo driving and connect with colleagues, with commuting insights to support your Scope 3 Category 7 reporting.
No infrastructure investment. No mandate. Just fewer solo cars on the road, and a dashboard that proves it.
Your workplace community. Connected to more people going your way.
The problem
Employee commuting sits within Scope 3 Category 7: travel between home and work. For most organisations, it is one of the largest single sources of Scope 3 emissions, and one of the hardest to reduce.
The reason it's hard is structural: you don't control how your employees get to work. You can't mandate they take public transport. You can't install train stations. And you can't install solar panels on their cars.
What you can do is make carpooling easy and measure the result.
The Australian commute
6 in 10+The University of Sydney’s March 2026 national Transport Opinion Survey puts car use at 62.3% of commuting.
University of Sydney · March 2026 survey
When people who would otherwise drive separately share a journey, fewer cars need to make the trip.
Why Herdy for employers
Understand participation, shared journeys and potential emissions impact. The Herdy employer dashboard measures actual carpooling trips (distance, frequency, employee participation) and converts them into tCO₂e avoided against your commuting baseline. No estimation, no surveys: real trip data.
Employees verify their work email to join your workplace group. They can also connect with the wider Herdy community, opening up more possibilities across routes and schedules.
Commuting stress is consistently cited as one of the top contributors to employee dissatisfaction. Carpooling reduces it. Passengers relax while someone else drives, and drivers recover their fuel costs. It also builds social connections across teams, strengthening workplace culture in a way no Zoom call can replicate.
Every carpool removes a car from your car park. For organisations managing constrained parking (hospitals, universities, industrial sites) this has real operational value. Herdy's data shows you which corridors are most active, so you can design parking incentives that actually match commuting patterns.
Get 12 months of employer access from your agreed start date in exchange for helping shape the service. Employees still cover any agreed ride cost contributions.
Work with us on useful measures, export formats and methodology documentation. Your sustainability and HR teams help decide what the employer dashboard should deliver.
Passengers contribute towards the driver’s actual running costs. 100% of the contribution goes to the driver; Herdy takes no commission.
How it works
We register your company's email domain in Herdy. From that point, any employee who signs up with their work email is automatically added to your carpooling network: no manual approval required, no IT integration needed.
Employees download Herdy to offer or find a ride, chat and arrange their journey. They can carpool with colleagues or people in the wider Herdy community whose routes and schedules fit.
Cost-sharing is handled automatically in-app: no cash, no awkwardness.
Your sustainability manager logs into the Herdy employer dashboard and sees real-time data: active carpoolers, rides completed, CO₂ avoided, top corridors. Export the data quarterly for Scope 3 reporting or ongoing ESG disclosure.
Your workplace, connected
A suitable carpool partner might work alongside you or at another workplace down the road.
Herdy connects your workplace community to a wider network, expanding the possibilities for shared journeys. Someone living nearby and travelling to the same precinct could be a great match, even if they work for a different organisation.
Your organisation’s group is reserved for employees who verify their work email. Employees can also arrange rides with other Herdy users, choosing the people and journeys that work for them.
Employees verify their organisation’s work email address to join your workplace group.
Find potential matches among colleagues, neighbouring workplaces and the wider Herdy community.
Participation is voluntary. People chat and agree arrangements before travelling together.
We’re developing reporting around aggregate participation and journey measures, with data arrangements agreed during setup.
Reporting, made useful
An example of the reporting we want to build with you. Explore the demo period, assumptions and calculation below.
Example Australian workplace
One workplace · 240 eligible employees
Active participation
30%72 of 240 employees shared a rideCompleted shared rides
360One-way vehicle journeysShared kilometres
7,200Vehicle-km, counted once per rideEstimated vehicle-km avoided
4,680Solo driving replaced, less detoursCounterfactual travel mode · passenger journeys
Demo assumption: one driver and one passenger per ride, each with a 20 km baseline commute. Unknown responses receive no avoided-travel credit.
Illustrative net impact
0.84 t CO₂-eFrom displaced solo driving, after allowing for collection detours. Public transport, walking and cycling receive no avoided-emissions credit in this demo.
A made-up factor for demonstrating the calculation. Not an Australian government emission factor.
Active participation means unique employees who completed at least one shared ride, divided by 240 eligible employees. Registrations alone are not participation. A ride is a completed one-way vehicle journey, counted once, rather than once per passenger. Cancelled rides are excluded. Shared kilometres are the common 20 km segment; collection detours are shown separately. This demo has one employee driver and one employee passenger on every ride.
For August, 360 passenger journeys × 70% who would drive alone × 20 km = 5,040 baseline vehicle-km displaced. Subtract 360 km of detours (1 km per completed ride), giving 4,680 estimated net vehicle-km avoided. The drivers are assumed to make their 20 km journeys regardless. Unknown and other modes receive zero baseline credit; all detours are still counted.
4,680 km × 0.180 kg CO₂-e/km = 842.4 kg CO₂-e (displayed in tonnes rounded to two decimal places). The illustrative factor represents operational vehicle emissions only; upstream fuel, vehicle manufacture and infrastructure are excluded. All vehicles use the same assumed factor. Actual factors vary by fuel, efficiency, vehicle technology and electricity region. No uncertainty range has been modelled.
Collect journey distances, occupancy, vehicle/fuel information, travel-mode responses, detours, period and coverage. Document factor source, year, units, geography, gases and boundary; match vehicle-km factors to vehicle-km and passenger-km factors to passenger-km. Apply a documented allocation method for mixed employee/public rides and avoid double-counting across groups. Protect personal journey details through agreed access, aggregation and retention rules.
Validate the method with your reporting team, include non-Herdy commuting, and report missing data and uncertainty. This prototype does not claim AASB S2 or GHG Protocol compliance, assurance, carbon credits or a complete Category 7 inventory.
Reference context: GHG Protocol Category 7 calculation guidance · Australian National Greenhouse Accounts Factors. These sources inform methodology discussions; neither endorses this demo or supplies its illustrative factor.
Founding partners · Australia
Get 12 months of free employer access and help shape commuting insights around the needs of your sustainability and HR teams.
We’re looking for workplaces across Australia ready to introduce employee carpooling and help us understand what makes it work for their people.
Let’s talk about your workplaceEmail support@herdy.com.au or use our contact form.
The offer covers employer access for 12 months from the agreed start date. Employees still pay any agreed ride cost contributions. Scope, data arrangements and any options after the free period will be agreed before starting.
FAQ
Yes. Work email verification controls membership of your organisation’s group. Employees can also find rides across the wider Herdy community, increasing their opportunities to find a suitable match.
The dashboard shown is an illustrative prototype. We’re working with founding partners to shape the reporting, measures and exports around real workplace needs. We’ll agree available features and delivery expectations with each partner.
The proposed approach compares a shared journey with how its participants would otherwise have travelled, accounting for distance, vehicle characteristics and additional driving. We’ll develop the methodology and its documentation with founding partners, making assumptions clear rather than treating every shared ride as an avoided car trip.
The founding partner offer does not require employers to fund rides. Drivers and passengers agree their cost contributions separately. Founding partners receive 12 months of free employer access.
We’re designing the employer dashboard around aggregate commuting insights. Reporting access, privacy safeguards, minimum reporting group sizes and data arrangements will be agreed with founding partners before launch.
Help introduce Herdy to your employees and give regular feedback on participation and reporting. Your sustainability and HR teams help shape useful measures, export formats and the information needed to understand commuting impact.
There is no single participation threshold that guarantees results. Matching depends on routes, schedules and available drivers. Access to the wider Herdy community gives employees more potential matches, including when participation within their own workplace is small.
No. The outcome depends on the journey it replaces, vehicle emissions and detours. Replacing a solo car journey can reduce driving; replacing walking, cycling or a public transport trip may not. That’s why reporting needs to understand what people would otherwise have done.
Herdy is designed to contribute useful employee commuting activity data. A complete Category 7 inventory also needs non-participants and other travel modes. Estimated avoided emissions are a separate comparison, not an offset or an automatic inventory deduction. Your reporting team remains responsible for boundaries, methodology and assurance; this prototype does not claim reporting compliance.