Efficiency in the Home

The reorganisation of the Home Office's headquarters in London including the co-location of another central government department, aligned and showcased the government's Civil Service Reform programme.

The ambition was to deliver a major reorganisation in preparation of the co-location of the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), providing a cross-departmental office for several thousand employees and annual savings of £24m for taxpayers though efficient use of space.

We were appointed to manage the entire programme. The reorganisation was considerably complex with relocations aligned with an organisation restructure in a live environment.

As programme and project managers we determined a new accommodation and space model that involved a complete review of the existing infrastructure. It included security and IT platforms, the reconfiguration of all floors and the relocation of over 6,000 employees through a change programme.

The successful delivery has provided a workplace over three inter-connected buildings, with the Home Office consolidating into two buildings and freeing up the other for the DCLG. Furthermore, to address our client's drive for greater efficiency and effectiveness, we included the adoption of shared working principles at an average employee to desk ratio of 10:6.8 and a reduction in desk size.