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Mobile and Flexible Working
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Aberdeenshire council's workstyle transformation programme is now called WorkSmart. This flier has been used as a poster and as a communication tool to help promote and reinforce the councils' stance on flexible and mobile working.
Aberdeenshire Council surveyed all their staff about flexible working practices and incentivised this with 10 8gb iPhones. Using the payroll they inserted a flier into everyone's payslip, thus targeting the whole organisation for only £300 for the insertions. This was the poster that they put up all over the council to highlight the survey.
Aberdeenshire Council surveyed all their staff about flexible working practices and incentivised this with 10 8gb iPhones. Using the payroll they inserted this flier into everyone's payslip, thus targeting the whole organisation for only £300 for the insertions.
In early 2009, building on one of the themes arising from the Diagnostic Pathway in Scotland, the Improvement Service commissioned CapGemini to provide research on best practice examples of mobile and flexible working. The research focuses on specific benefits and improvements plus gives comment around key issues which organisations may face in undertaking and implementing such projects. This paper summarises this research and illustrates these with case studies. In addition to the CapGemini research, Appendix F presents a summary of those business cases submitted by Scottish councils to the Improvement Service up to December 2008 which the IS believes show intention to implement aspects of flexible and mobile working (please note that some of these were not specifically identified by the councils themselves as flexible and mobile working, but we believe that, when viewed in context, these business cases show a potential benefit in this area).The business case summaries in Appendix F are grouped according to the four elements of flexible and mobile working as identified through the CapGemini research: People, Process, Property and Technology. All these business cases can be found on the Mobile and Flexible Working in Scotland Community of Practice collaboration space at http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/c/1339395/home.do.All business cases (not only the mobile and flexible working ones) submitted to the IS can be found on the Diagnostic Pathway Toolkit at http://member.goodpractice.net/DiagnosticPathwayToolkit/Login.gp
This document is a summary of Nomad projects collated in February 2009 from information taken from presentations, agendas and case studies submitted to Nomad over the period 2006-2008. They look specifically at any form of mobile working and mainly comprise technology projects such as WiFi, although other types of project are also represented. Case studies are drawn from Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Argyll and Bute, Barnsley, Clackmannanshire, Fife, Glasgow, Leeds, Midlothian, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Borders, Stirling, and West Lothian councils, and Forth Valley GIS. To submit comments on these case studies or join the discussion around flexible and mobile working in Scotland, please join the online community at http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/c/1339395/home.do
