York Council CASE STUDY2 Background City of York Council is a unitary Local Authority that employs 3000 FTEs and serves 200,000 residents, 20,000 students and 8,000 council tenants. The council was tasked with making savings of £6.5million in 2016/17 which is equivalent to 5.5 per cent of its net budget (£117.9M). However, the council continues to spend one of the lowest amounts per head per population amongst UK Local Authorities. A few years back, City of York Council tried to adopt mobile working and it didn’t work out for them. Staff were suffering with an underperforming solution and due to this there was a poor reputation of mobile working and IT as a result. However, out the back of this, City of York Council learned a lot, and when they came to look at mobile working a

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