INTRODUCTION
On 17 March 2020, our College pivoted overnight from face-toface to remote
delivery and over 23,000 learners and 1400 staff
went on-line. City of Glasgow College colleagues adapted quickly
and impressively to imposed remote working arrangements. We all
quickly gained new skills during this time which allowed us to work
from home, including planning and prioritising our own workload,
working collaboratively online, and teaching in virtual environments.
City of Glasgow College supported and enabled this transition to
remote working with the introduction of new technologies which
allowed people to meet and teach in a virtual way.
The new skills gained by colleagues, together with the new
technology that has been introduced provides City of Glasgow
College with a unique one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to empower
colleagues and line managers to take more ownership over the
working day in ways that haven't been possible before, through the
introduction of hybrid working.
As we move into this new way of working it's vital that we always
prioritise the needs of our teams and our students, supporting the
acceleration of the delivery of our strategy. Hybrid working options
are made available on the understanding that they work around our
business needs.
It should be noted that not every role will be suitable for hybrid
working and approval of informal hybrid working requests are subject
to operational requirements. If your job is completely connected
to on campus activity, or your customer requires you to be there in
person, then it is likely you will have to be on campus most, or all, of
the time.
Hybrid working is new to everyone and as a college we are still
learning. It is important we learn from this together and work hard to
make hybrid working flourish rather than flounder.
Having consulted extensively with the College Community it
is clear that, post pandemic we want to take advantage of the
enhancements that new models of working have to offer.
This toolkit for colleagues and managers which aims to provide
information on•
Hybrid working overview
• Our research & collaborative working on designing the guidance
• The guiding principles
• Top tips for hybrid working
• Hybrid working - next steps
• Manager guidance and colleague guidance for hybrid working