Leverage LodgeLink's Advanced Search for Tailored Workforce Accommodations

For travel managers coordinating accommodation logistics for field teams, finding the perfect place to stay can be a challenge.

Workforce crews have a rather unique set of requirements. Often staying in remote crew accommodations, needing parking for large work trucks, sharing rooms, working opposite shifts, and requiring after-hours meal service, there’s a long list of needs that standard hotel booking sites don’t address. Whether you're managing short-term utility crew stays or extended stays for workers, complexity is the norm.

In addition, crews are often dispatched to tertiary or rural areas where accommodations are limited and demand is high. Staying on budget while finding the right fit adds another layer of complexity to construction travel management, utility crew travel management, and oilfield crew housing alike.

Problem #3 - Managing Complex Schedules:

To ensure your project is completed on time, your crew could be working in split shifts, and extending their stay for a month or more. To stay on budget, you’ll need to figure out an easy and efficient way to have them share rooms with a property that’s able to provide enough rooms at a cost-efficient rate.

Beyond the search functions of a workforce travel platform, we can also make life easier for you when searching for your crews and ensuring their health and safety. 

Problem #5 - Keeping Track of Where Your Crews Are:

Once the job is in progress, there’s then the need to keep everything organized and accounted for. With such a large team on the move from their homes to their temporary accommodations and then back and forth to the job site, the possibility of unexpected delays or disruptions rises with every trip.

Problem #6 - Dealing with the Unexpected: 

And if something goes wrong, who’s the best person to contact? For a sizeable crew on the move day and night, having someone available to answer calls or emails in the event of an emergency, possibly to spend hours troubleshooting a solution can add extra cost and stress to any project.

Problem #7 - So Many Invoices: 

When everything is wrapped up and the job is completed, reconciling all the invoices for all the stays can be a nightmare in itself. Paperwork and invoices can stack up, leading to missed deadlines and added stress. And then there's the dreaded unexpected invoice, which can wreak havoc at even the best of times.