Employees currently employed by Lincolnshire County Council August 2025

Please provide me with the following:

1. The number of people the council currently employs.

2. The percentage of employees (either exactly or as an approximate) who work from home (WFH) each day.

3. In terms of accommodation, the ratio of desks-to-staff the council currently provides. For instance, is it six desks for every 10 members of staff.

4. In square meters, the approximate additional office space the council would need to provide in order accommodate 100% of employees working in the office.

5. In square meters, the approximate additional office space the council would need to purchase or lease in order accommodate 100% of employees working in the office.

6. In terms of running costs (power, water, insurances, taxes, security etc) the approximate additional annual cost to the council of providing office space for 100% of staff to work in the office each day.

7. Assuming services would not be cut to fund the additional costs, the approximate increase which would need to be made to individual council tax bills to pay for the annual running costs of this additional office space.

8. In terms of productivity, has the council any data to suggest employees who WFH are less productive, more productive or as productive as employees who are office-based. If so, please share this data.

1. 6,016.

2. Due to the nature of Lincolnshire County Council's (LCC's) current smarter working approach and the flexibility that brings, along with the number of sites at which employees can work, Lincolnshire County Council do not record this information and are not able to give a precise figure on the number of employees who are currently working from home either full time or part time. More information on LCC's Smarter Working Policy can be found here: https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/employment-policies/smarter-working-policy.

3. To be able to provide a comprehensive response within the timeframe the data has been collated for Lincoln Newland Campus only. There are 886 desks for LCC officers at Newland Campus and 2,327 staff with Newland Campus as their allocated work base. This is a ratio of 1 desk for every 2.62 members of staff.

4. If every member of LCC staff with an allocated work base of Lincoln Newland campus were to work from the offices five days a week, approximately 8,600 square metres of additional office space would be required.

5. As above, approximately 8,600 sqm of additional office space would need to be purchased, leased or refurbished to accommodate 100% of employees working full time in the office at Newland campus.

6. The estimated running cost for the additional space needed to accommodate 100% of employees working full time in the office at Lincoln Newland campus is £1,072,104 per year. This does not include the lease, purchase or refurbishment cost of any additional space.

7. No information held.

8. Whether an employee works remotely or in the office, LCC have a performance management framework in place, which means that performance is regularly monitored through 1:1s and appraisals. The link to the Performance and Development Appraisal Policy can be found here: https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/employment-policies/performance-development-appraisal-policy.