Request ID: FOI-2999-2122 Date published: 01 April 2022
You asked
From 05/01/2021 to 31/01/2021 at 4th Floor, Green Zone, Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road London SE1 8NJ, During this lock down period Covid 19.
1. What is the total headcount working in this area?
2. What percentage of staff in this area were not attending work due to being off sick, maternity leave, Isolating, Self Isolating etc.
3. What percentage of staff in this area was working from home.
4. What percentage of staff in this area were attending the 4th floor green zone on a full time basis.
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-2999-2122
Thank you for your request of 23rd March 2022 asking for information about staff working in the “Green Zone” at our Palestra office.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.
Specifically you asked:
“From 05/01/2021 to 31/01/2021 at 4th Floor, Green Zone, Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road London SE1 8NJ, During this lock down period Covid 19.
1. What is the total headcount working in this area? 2. What percentage of staff in this area were not attending work due to being off sick, maternity leave, Isolating, Self Isolating etc. 3. What percentage of staff in this area was working from home. 4. What percentage of staff in this area were attending the 4th floor green zone on a full time basis.”
I am afraid that TfL does not hold the requested information. While different teams within TfL have nominal areas in which they are based (and several teams may be assigned to one zone depending on their size, or some teams may span different zones) staff are able to “hot desk”, meaning they might in theory sit anywhere in any one of our offices. We do not monitor or record staff attendance by “zone”, and it is therefore not possible to answer your questions.
If you wish to re-frame your request with reference to a specific team then we can consider that as a new request. However, at this stage I cannot say what information we will / will not hold in relation to any such request, nor whether it would be possible to source it all within the £450 costs limit for responding to FOI cases (for example, records on home-working might not exist as these arrangements may have been agreed informally at the local level between staff and their management, or if records do exsit it may require an excessive trawl of historic emails to find them).
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely,
David Wells FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
