Response 987157

Response to request for information

Reference

987157

Response date

20 December 2022

Request

Please include the following information:

• The number of staff that currently work employed by the council that are contractual home workers

Please also include the following information:

• The number of contractual home workers employed by the department in each of the last three financial years: 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22

By “contractual home workers” I mean employees who have it written into their contracts that their normal working arrangements are to work from home.

Finally, please also include the following information:

• The daily occupancy rate of the council offices during the following months: September, October, November (2022)

The occupancy rate could be either the number of desks or workspaces booked per day through a hot-desking system as a percentage of the total number of desks, or it could be the percentage of eligible card-holders who have access to the council offices who have access it during this period

Response

We do not have any employees that are on a 'home worker' contract, neither have we had any employed on this basis in 2019 -2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022

We are unable to report the daily occupancy rate of the office area, as we do not operate a desk booking system. It may be helpful to understand that when we re-located to our new office building in 2016, the desk to employee ratio was 7 desks for every 10 employees.