Hybrid Working Guidance June 2024

1. Introduction

Hybrid working has helped us become a more dynamic and flexible organisation fostering creativity, efficiency, and collaboration. Working in a hybrid way can also help us to better meet service users and community needs, balanced with the ability to choose where our people work. We want to enable everyone to do their best work.

We know that having some flexibility over our working arrangements helps us to be more productive and supports our day-to-day working lives. Working in this way supports our Core Values and Behaviours helps us to tackle the climate emergency, improve productivity and reduce costs.

It also contributes to our Workforce Strategy priorities by ensuring we have the right number of people, with the right skills and attitudes, in place at the right time. Our Hybrid Working guidance describes how employees can work from a council building, in the community, at home or a combination of these, subject to service continuity. This is a non-contractual arrangement, which may be adjusted depending on the circumstances.

Before adopting a hybrid working approach, you should discuss and agree your working arrangements with your manager. This discussion should be documented locally by your manager. Managers will review this working arrangement at least once a year to ensure it is working for the organisation, the team and you as an individual.