Wakefield Council hopes to save £1m in property costs and a further £100,000 annually in telephony related costs through technology deployments which will promote flexible working.

It is working with Siemens Enterprise Communications to support telephony mobility for hot-desk environments and unified communication.

Alan Kirkham, Wakefield Council service director of ICT at “We still have quite a long way to go with flexible working. We want to look at all other services to see which ones could benefit the most from taking a more flexible approach.”