The Evening Standard has reported that a permanent Whitehall revolution, devised by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude and Sir Bob Kerslake, the new head of the Civil Service, will see thousands of civil servants working from home or on flexible hours.
The Olympics will be the catalyst for a radical drive towards a “more corporate” Civil Service, with video conferencing replacing many face-to-face meetings to increase efficiency and ease pressure on the transport system.
Another key way to increase efficiency is to convert from the traditional use of tape recorders and transcribers to a digital dictation solution. Digital dictation enables civil servants to locate recorders more easily, share transcriptions with colleagues and increases the security of the recordings.
In the case of mobile working, civil servants would be able to integrate phones such as the BlackBerry and iPhone, resulting in the ability to dictate documents remotely.
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