Business Travel to New Jersey: The Complete Guide
Everything a business traveler needs for New Jersey — getting around, where to stay, the companies you'd visit, and the conferences that land here.
Getting around New Jersey
New Jersey is a commuter-rail state wrapped around car-dependent office parks. Newark (EWR) connects to NJ Transit rail (and AirTrain), which reaches a lot of the state; the southern edge uses Philadelphia (PHL). If your destination is a town center near a station, the train works. If it is a campus off the highway — Parsippany, Whippany, Basking Ridge — it is a rideshare or a rental, and a rental usually wins for a multi-stop day.
Where to stay in New Jersey
Match the hotel to the office, not the reflex booking. Our where to stay in new jersey guide maps the metro by submarket and employer, with a verified shortlist for each company.
Who you're visiting: New Jersey's headquarters
Each company below has a complete visit guide — the hotel, the airport route, and the meeting. Pick your client.
| Automatic Data Processing (ADP) | Roseland, in Essex County |
| Avis Budget Group | Parsippany, on Sylvan Way |
| Bayer (U.S. headquarters) | Whippany, adjacent to Parsippany |
| Becton Dickinson (BD) | Franklin Lakes, in northern Bergen County |
| Burlington Stores | Burlington, on Route 130 |
| Church & Dwight | Ewing, in the Princeton / Route 1 corridor |
| Cognizant | Teaneck, at Glenpointe |
| Johnson & Johnson | downtown New Brunswick |
| Merck & Co. | Rahway |
| Panasonic North America | downtown Newark, at Riverfront Plaza |
| PBF Energy | Parsippany, on Sylvan Way |
| Prudential Financial | downtown Newark, on Broad Street |
| Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) | downtown Newark, at Park Plaza |
| Quest Diagnostics | Secaucus, in the Meadowlands |
| The Campbell's Company (Campbell Soup) | the Camden waterfront |
| Verisk Analytics | the Jersey City waterfront |
| Wyndham Hotels & Resorts | Parsippany, on Sylvan Way |
| Zoetis | Parsippany, on Sylvan Way |
A free evening in New Jersey
New Jersey's corporate belt is quiet after hours, but you are rarely far from something better — a county park or the Delaware & Raritan Canal towpath for a walk, and, more often than not, a short train into Manhattan or down to Philadelphia when the evening deserves a city.
More on working the city and recovering on the road.
Before you book
Every trip here is a spend against a quota. Score it with the Trip ROI Scorecard, then plan the airport-to-office run and book to the right submarket.
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