# How do we count an employee's relocation in our emissions?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/employee-relocation-emissions-scope-3

Flights and train journeys for the employee and family that you pay for are business travel, Category 6. Packers and movers are a purchased service, so their trucking is Category 1 or 4 depending on how you classify it. Temporary hotel stays go with business travel.

## Records

- Travel bookings for the move.
- Movers' invoice with distance and truck size.
- Hotel nights during the move.

## Be consistent

Choose one category for movers' trucking and keep it every year.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible keeps purchase invoices on the Scope 3 trail with the category, method and factor source on every line, so spend-based estimates are labelled as estimates and can be replaced with supplier data later.

- [Business travel flights](https://senseible.earth/answers/flight-emissions-business-travel-india)
- [Hotel stay per night](https://senseible.earth/answers/hotel-stay-emissions-per-night)

Sources: [GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-value-chain-scope-3-standard)

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.