What is Agile Working in Professional
Services?
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In keeping with the UCL 2034 vision of innovation and the key enablers of valuing
staff and delivering a sustainable estate to meet the University’s aspirations, Agile
Working fits well with these themes.
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A key vision for the future of Professional Services in UCL involves a review of
current working practices to make improvements in the way we work together
both collaboratively and individually in our respective Divisions.
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Cultural change is needed within Professional Services to embrace new ways of
working to allow us to work smarter and to maximise our productivity and become
a more Agile workforce.
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Adoption of flexible working practices will embed Agile Working values
What is Agile Working in Professional
Services?
What does Agile working mean?
• The ability to work in variable locations to complete the tasks necessary to your
job on any given day. This may be in an office at a desk with your team, breakout
area, in a library, in a café or at home.
• The ability comes from being given the appropriate practices and processes to
allow you to work in a variety of locations.
• Removes desk ownership: A clear desk policy will apply to all.
What does Agile working NOT mean?
• Contracted Homeworking
– The transition to agile working will not in itself mean a move to contractual
homeworking. Working from home on an ad-hoc basis with the agreement of
your line manager but without any change to contractual terms and conditions
may be part of an agile working solution.
What is Agile Working in Professional
Services?
Key objectives
• Supporting the 2034 Vision for UCL and a number of its key
enablers
• Contributing to financial and environmental sustainability
• Making efficient use of space and ISD capability to enable an
agile workforce that can work in more than one location
Key benefits of Agile Working
Agile Working has a number of benefits and is not just about reducing the footprint that
Professional Services occupies.
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Freedom to work in the best location making the best use of time and resources
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Reduced time travelling by avoiding having to always return to your desk
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Will utilise the latest ISD developments such as desktop@UCL
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Allows teams to work more flexibly and improve cross-divisional collaboration
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Encourages the development of new working practices that allow client facing teams
to spend more time with their clients around the university
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Making time together count - in many cases enabling people to be more flexible in
how they work means that when they are all together it encourages better use of that
collaborative time and maintains team cohesion.