The Assistant Director for Human Resources and Organisational Development presented the report of the Director of Resources which set out the Council’s approach to the adoption of hybrid working and gave an update on the steps taken to implement this way of working across services. Hybrid working had become standard practice for about 1,800 of the Council’s 3,500 staff since the Covid-19 pandemic and was generally welcomed without any reported loss in productivity or any increase in sickness levels. It had not been imposed and principles of working had developed. 

Members queried the details of the arrangements including cost benefits and contact methods.

Resolved: That how the Council has adopted hybrid working, the principles and support that are in place to provide a framework to support the effective operation and management of hybrid working be noted.