Employees of Calderdale Council could find themselves working from home after a trial has proven to be successful.

According to reports in the Halifax Courier, the decision to encourage people to work from home is partly driven by public sector cost saving initiatives. In fact, the council's Northgate House headquarters could well be bulldozed altogether as a report found that both the staff and the council could benefit from working from home.

However, it doesn't look like staff will be completely cut off from office space. Councillor David Kirton, who compiled the report, said that in the future, the council would, for example, provide office space for seven in every ten suitable staff. The teams would then share desks and split their time between home and the office.

Those who were working away from a base or compiling reports would spend more time at home than those who required the office facilities.

The council also floated an innovative approach to management, stating that managers would monitor the work produced by the teams instead of the amount of time they spend working.

Mr Kirton added that the workplace is “massively changing” and Northgate House will need to link up to this alternative method of business.