Abstract

As indicated in Government reports and previous research, the traditional office environment of both central and local governments has been occupied with high occupancy cost. Flexible working supported by information and communication technology, human resource, and workspace management has emerged as a modern concept for managing office resources. Workspace management models covering both activity‐based working area and portfolio flexibility are developed to assist an organisation to allocate staff and working area more flexibly and efficiently. However, public organisations like Scottish Local Authorities (SLAs) are unlikely to fully adopt commercial workspace management models. Therefore, the concept of a combined resource management strategy has been introduced to assist the Authorities in considering adoption in financial/economic terms before taking‐up of flexible working in practice. Santrauka Kaip rodo Vyriausybės ataskaitos ir ankstesnis tyrimas, ir centrinės, ir vietos valdžios tradiciniuose biuruose daug dėmesio skirta didelėms turto valdymo sąnaudoms. Lankstus grafi kas, pagrįstas informacinių ir komunikacinių technologijų, žmogiškųjų išteklių ir darbo vietos vadyba, atsirado kaip modernus biuro išteklių valdymo būdas. Jau yra darbo vietos valdymo modelių, kurie apima ir su veikla susijusią darbo vietą, ir portfelio lankstumą, leidžia organizacijai lanksčiau ir efektyviau paskirstyti darbuotojus bei biurų plotą. Tačiau mažai tikėtina, kad valstybinės organizacijos, pavyzdžiui, Škotijos vietos valdžia, perims nepakeistus komercinius darbo vietos valdymo modelius. Todėl pristatyta kombinuotos išteklių vadybos strategijos idėja, kuri padėtų valdžiai apsvarstyti modelių taikymą fi nansine ir ekonomine prasme prieš realiai imantis lankstaus darbo.

Highlights

  • Property management principles in the public sector have been continuously developed by researchers and practitioners over the last two decades

  • This paper aims to describe an application of flexible working, especially Workspace Management (WSM) in public organisation offices

  • Since the analysis shows that there is no significant difference of means amongst property, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and Human Resource (HR) management areas, the proportion of time-spent presented in the pie chart above can be representative for the different management areas

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Introduction

Property management principles in the public sector have been continuously developed by researchers and practitioners over the last two decades. The need for more effective, efficient, and economic use of property has been recommended by UK Government reports such as Audit Commission (2000) Hot Property Report, Gershon (2004) - Public Sector Efficiency Review, and Lyons’ Reviews (2004a,b). The reports address the term ‘Flexible Working’ (FW) as a modern concept that should be applied to public organisations. The emergence of the flexibility principle is likely to influence property management practice, in terms of operational flexibility and efficiency. This paper aims to describe an application of flexible working, especially Workspace Management (WSM) in public organisation offices. The implications from the survey of flexible working in Scottish Local Authority (SLA) property are described to assist public offices, like SLA, to successfully take-up flexible working in this context

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