In one year, the audit and council giant sold a third of his office area in the British capital. It ensures that this will not affect the
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Savings of scale while adapting to new working methods: this is the Deloitte strategy in the United Kingdom since the CVIV-19 pandemic. According to the information of the Financial Times, the audit and council giant will abandon in May Hill House, one of the buildings of his New Street Square campus, in the City of London.
Hill House represents more than 17,000 square meters of offices, which wears at 23,000 square meters the surface of which the company has separated in London, in one year. After the first confines, Deloitte had not reopened one of his four offices of New Street Square, and also closed a “digital hub”. In total, the cabinet sells a third of its office area in the capital. Deloitte extended the leases of the two largest buildings of his campus until 2036, leaving him 45,000 square meters on the site where the company has been established since 2007.
These large maneuvers will have no impact on employment, indicates a source in Financial Times. Indeed, employees working in abandoned buildings have been, or will be transferred to the remaining offices. On the other hand, Deloitte had already decided, in 2020, to close offices in Gatwick, Liverpool, Nottingham and Southampton, giving the 500 concerned employees the opportunity to keep their jobs if they were working full-time at home.
New management methods
To avoid congestion in its local premises, the multinational to 345,000 employees in 150 countries put on hybrid work and the “Flex Office”, which means that there are more employees than offices than offices individual available. This strategy goes hand in hand with the generalization of teleworking, while an internal investigation revealed that the majority of staff did not want to come to the office more than two days a week. In 2021, the company asked employees to decide their own frequency to which they wanted to work at home.
On the evolution of post-Covid modes of work is added the possibility for Deloitte to achieve savings, especially since the sector is facing higher costs to comply with environmental regulations. “We are constantly reviewing our office space needs to reflect changes to our working methods and sustainable development objectives,” says Stephen Griggs, British Director of Deloitte.
The group is known to explore new management methods, for itself as for the companies it advises. In 2016, the new headquarters of his French subsidiary had test five types of “flexible” occupational organization of his employees, starting with shared offices, already put forward at the time to “enhance efficiency” “.