Scottish Government hybrid working policy: FOI release

Information requested

• How many days are Scottish Government employees mandated to work in the office per week? I think that U.K. civil service is three days minimum per week but I may be wrong.
• What is the average number of days Scottish Government employees are working in the office per week in the most recent monitoring period?

Response

The Scottish Government (SG) has implemented a hybrid working policy which applies to the majority of our employees. Hybrid working arrangements ensure that colleagues combine working from home with a presence in a workplace (and for some roles, with stakeholders and in communities) each week and may vary from week to week depending on business need. Consequently, there are no centrally fixed mandated number of days that staff must work in the office per week, however there is the expectation that staff attend a Scottish Government workplace at least once per week.

As agreements on hybrid working are reached locally between the employee and their manager they are not recorded centrally. Therefore, whilst our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not hold the data that you have requested on the average number of days Scottish Government employees are working in the office per week. This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.

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