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I know pretty well how Bahncard works, I live in Germany.

The calculation might be easier, but I am yet to know a company that actually offers them to the employees.

While I have been at several companies that require the employees to own such cards, buy the tickets themselves and submit the travel expenses later. So most people end up owning a 25 or 50 one.

As for the flights, those are the prices we pay on average on our weekly flights between our sites and customer locations across Germany. I did not check specifically for Hamburg -> Munich.

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https://www.feelgood-at-work.de/workplaces/perk/bahncard/

You'll find that in a bunch of companies. The company I worked for has occasionally even paid Bahncard 100 for some employees. All it took to get any Bahncard for employees was to provide a calculation that it was cheaper than the other options.

If people submit travel expenses, they might also be able to submit the expense for a bahncard.

Any capable controlling department will easily detect that a substantial amount of money can be saved. For a company with 200 employees and 50% of them traveling this might be a six digit figure.

Thanks for the link, that I wasn't aware of.

We offer and pay for BahnCard 50, no questions asked. A single long distance trip a year and it’s paid for. Pretty much every one in the company travels at least once a year. If you travel sufficiently for company purposes, we pay for BC100, for people that travel extremely much, even first class.

Most people that work for us actually prefer train over flight for anything that’s within germany. Travel sometimes takes slightly longer, but is substantially more relaxed and you can actually make something in that time.

I also travel a lot by train, but being substantially more relaxed, depends very much on the connection actually happening, how many people get stuffed into the corridors without having a reservation, if we manage to actually seat on the place that we paid reservation for, if the bar wagon is actually there and with supplies,....

As for the bahncard, nice to know about. As mentioned, so far I know the variant on employee expenses.

The company I previously worked for did pay for a bahn card for me when I was doing the Frankfurt-Bonn route twice a week for a few months

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