Juliet Hinrichsen

LIW: Pilot/Phase 1

Sustainability at Coventry

Sustainable Lives

SustainableOrganisations

Sustainable World

Expected Benefits

Individual

• Improved Work-Life Balance

• Reduce commute time

• Reduction in travel costs

• Reduced stress

• Legitimisation of home working

Employer

• Improve work flexibility

• Improve recruitment-attractive employer

• Reduce absenteeism and stress

• Reduce space needs

• Reduce pressure on car parking

Environment

• Lower carbon footprint

• Reduced congestion and transport burden

• Higher standard of teaching with innovation

Location Independent Working consists of working at an alternative place rather than the office – it is not where you are BUT WHAT YOU DO THAT COUNTS

LIW – what is it?

Participation process

Voluntary opt in

Expression of interest

Decision on those to be included

Training for participants and managers

Individual consultations (new)

Formal agreement to terms and conditions

Equipment set-up and start-up

Development process

LIW Timeline

2002 → Sept 2007 to Feb 08 to July 08 to Sept 08 to March 09 to August 09 to Jan 10 2010 → 2013

CUE Implemetation 12 cohortsRedevelop CUE schemeCohort 1Cohort 2Cohorts 3 and 4EvaluationBR ProjectCross CU impementationLIW Knowledge Exchange

LIW History LIW Project LIW BR

LIW Long Term

Some “lessons”

1. Have a senior champion who is LIW

2. Create the LIW spaces early on

3. Big spaces foster multi-disciplinary dialogue; small spaces facilitate team dynamics

4. A formal system increases acceptability

5. Training is important

6. Myth busting: wide communication of the scheme should be undertaken

7. Process for storage of university owned material

8. The problems are smaller than you think

Outputs

• Suite of reports (evaluations from participant, organisational, management, student, environmental and economic perspectives, IT, support etc)

• LIW Knowledge Exchange• Keynotes, presentations to JISC Conference,

UCISA, ABS, Sustainable IT conference.....• Two highly successful dissemination

conferences• BR Project

BR Project

• Consultancy model• Negotiated package within bounds with

partners• Contacted 40 universities and colleges

who had shown interest• Worked in depth with 3• Why has consultancy model not worked as

well as we would hope?

Where now?

• Major roll out at Coventry across all faculties; project has been “taken over” by HR

• Maintain and further develop Knowledge Exchange

• Evaluate new Coventry experience• Does LIW result in longer term behavioral

change?• Publications