EFFICIENCY DRIVE BRINGS HOTDESKING

Public sector employees may have to embrace a culture of remote working and hotdesking if the Government is to realise its goal of saving £21bn of public sector expenditure under the Gershon Review. Part of the saving will be achieved by decentralising from large, expensive offices, and moving into smaller premises located in lower cost areas, reflecting the current trend for organisations to reduce their building and premises costs by downscaling to a smaller site.

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CONSUMER-LED LETTING OF SOCIAL HOUSING PROVES SUCCESSFUL

Five years after the first pilots were set up to move the letting of social housing from a producer-driven function to a consumer-led service, independent research has found that that the new way of working is successful. Traditionally, tenants were allocated a property which the social landlord deemed ‘suitable’ and they were then faced with the stark choice of whether to accept or reject the offer.

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Every year a sizeable number of local authority chief executives leave their jobs, many unwillingly. They are victims of a breakdown in the relationship with elected members who are increasingly seeking ways to ‘release’ their chief executive. The author describes the impact on both sides in a relationship breakdown and outlines ways of dealing with it, including easier divorce processes. This article was first published in Public Management and Policy and is reproduced by permission of the Association. http://www.cipfa.org.uk/pmpa/index.cfm