Freedom of Information Team
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Peter Wright
Central Mail Unit
Newcastle Upon Tyne
By email: request-1064804-
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Date: 24 January 2024
Our ref:
FOI2024/00010
Dear Peter Wright
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)
Thank you for your request, which was received on 2 January, for the following information:
“How many hot desks are available in the Liverpool regional centre? How does this compare
to the FTE worker numbers who have this as a home office?”
Our response
Like many office-based organisations, HMRC offers a mixture of home and office working,
with most colleagues able to work from home 2 days a week. Working environments are
designed for flexible working with a range of different workspaces suitable for different tasks.
Colleagues can use any workspace within our buildings and are encouraged to move
between areas so they can work using the right space for the task at hand. For these
reasons the building’s capacity is not measured by “hot desks”, and the figures for those
alone is not recorded.
There were 5,411 full time equivalent HMRC roles based at the Liverpool, India Buildings on
30 September 2023, which are the most recent figures available. The building includes a
total of 2,752 workspaces. While a small number of focus desks are assigned to colleagues
with workplace adjustments, the rest are available for use by any HMRC staff member.
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