Working from Home
Case reference FOI2023/00225
Published 10 February 2023
Request
I would like to request the following information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, relating to working from home policies.
a) How many employees in your organisation work from home (work from home being more than 5 hours per day) more than once a week?
b) The number of employees in your organisation and, of these, the number able to perform their work remotely (i.e., not those who are front-line workers) and the number who have started returning to in person work.:
c) What percentage of time, per week, are employees in your organisation entitled to work from home?
Response
I would like to request the following information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, relating to working from home policies.
a) How many employees in your organisation work from home (work from home being more than 5 hours per day) more than once a week?
b) The number of employees in your organisation and, of these, the number able to perform their work remotely (i.e., not those who are front-line workers) and the number who have started returning to in person work.:
c) What percentage of time, per week, are employees in your organisation entitled to work from home?
Answer: Unfortunately we don't have the metrics available to respond to the questions asked. We don't have any employees which are purely home-based workers. We operate our working practices under a policy named 'Flexible Futures' which empowers our employees to work wherever is most appropriate for the delivery of services whilst always meeting customer need. The policy assigns worker styles to roles; there are currently approximately 1171 assigned as a flexible worker, which enables the employee to work from any location, which can be a mixture of home, office or other suitable location.
Documents
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