Professional services staff hiring costs and turnover rates
Dear University College London,
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1. Please can you provide the estimated cost of hiring a new member of professional services (permanent) staff.
2. Please can you specify for the past 5 years the annual staff turnover rates in each of the professional services divisions.
Thank you
Yours faithfully,
M. Majeur
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Dear University College London,
By law you should have responded to this request.
Yours faithfully,
M.Majeur
Dear M. Majeur,
Thank you for your e-mail.
We are currently working on your FOI request and will be in a position to respond to your request by Tuesday 28th May.
Apologies for the delay and any inconvenience caused.
Kind regards,
Mehwish Sultan
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser
University College London
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Dear M. Majeur,
Apologies for the delay in providing you with a response to your request.
We have now completed the compilation of information in response to your
request.
We can confirm that we do hold some information of the description
specified in your request and where this information is not exempt, it is
provided below.
1. Please can you provide the estimated cost of hiring a new member of
professional services (permanent) staff.
We do not hold the data for the total cost of recruiting a new member of
professional services (permanent) staff.
2. Please can you specify for the past 5 years the annual staff
turnover rates in each of the professional services divisions.
Please see below for the information requested regarding our central
professional services:
Division 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
Biological 11% 4% 7% 13% 8%
Services
Estates 16% 16% 17% 24% 8%
Division
Finance &
Business 12% 18% 16% 14% 5%
Affairs
Human
Resources 14% 24% 12% 26% 14%
Division
Information
Services 12% 9% 12% 11% 7%
Division
Planning 25% 25% 9%
Division
Professional 33% 14%
Services
Professional Redacted
Services Hub
Students' 26% 31% 30% 26% 17%
Union UCL
TOPS Redacted
Programme
UCL Culture 18% 15% 16% 20% 10%
Unitemps
As you can see, the percentage calculations based on counts of five or
less been withheld because these are personal data of third parties or, if
linked with other personal identifiers in the public domain, would be
likely to become personal data. This information has been withheld under
section 40(2) of the FOIA by virtue of s40 (3)(a)(i).
Section 40(2) of the FOIA allows a public authority to withhold
information under the FOIA where (i) the requested information is personal
data relating to someone other than the requester and (ii) its disclosure
would breach any of the data protection principles. In this case we
believe that the requested information could relate to and identify
individual staff members and would be considered as their personal data.
The disclosure of this personal data would not be within the reasonable
expectations of the individuals concerned and it would be unfair to do so;
this therefore breaches the first data protection principle.
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Kind regards,
Mehwish Sultan
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser
University College London
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Dear University College London,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of University College London's handling of my FOI request 'Professional services staff hiring costs and turnover rates'.
1. Not all Professional Services divisions were included, as per https://www.ucl.ac.uk/professional-servi...
2. An estimated new employee hiring cost is a reasonable request for any company with a HR department.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondents ondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...
Yours faithfully,
M.Majeur
Dear M Majeur
Please find attached UCL’s response to your FOI Request.
Thanks
Josh
Josh Wiesberger
Professional Services Hub Coordinator & Executive Assistant to Director,
Professional Services Hub (Natalie Conway) &
Interim Executive Assistant to Chief Operating Officer (Fiona Ryland)
Professional Services Hub
1 St Martin’s Le Grand, London, EC1A 4AS
Email: [1][email address]
Int Ext: 59195
DDI: 0203 1089 195
[2]https://www.ucl.ac.uk/transforming-our-p...
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