Google Workspace selected by Hackney for team collaboration

The London Borough of Hackney is a borough with over 280,000 residents which has undergone a complete transformation over the past 15 years. The borough’s public services, transport and schools have gone from the worst in the country to amongst the best. Hackney is the creative heart of London – home to Tech City, to Hackney Central’s growing fashion district, to the artists, makers and developers of Hackney Wick, and the vibrant nightlife of Dalston.

We wanted to provide our users with modern tools that help them work collaboratively, flexibly and with fewer barriers to getting things done. By working with Ancoris to roll out Google Workspace to over 4,000 users across our organisation, we have opened up a whole range of new possibilities. Teams are benefitting from seamless collaboration, easy access to their work from any location and device, and are finding that they can work in new ways that just weren’t possible with our previous technologies.

Rob Miller, Director of ICT

London Borough of Hackney

About the project

As a local authority, Hackney Council needs technology to help stretch tight budgets and maintain frontline service delivery. This centred on extensive use of Google Workspace to improve collaboration between teams and create a mobile environment.

Then

On premise Microsoft Office suite with limited mobile capability
No real time collaboration or partner access
No instant messaging or video conferencing capability
No social networks or team workspaces
The Council recognised that Google Workspace presented an opportunity to introduce more flexible and adaptive ways of working, which are fit for the future

Now

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A modern and flexible work experience, making it easy to get work done wherever and whenever you need it – helping Hackney retain and attract their future workforce
Enhanced mobile access which provides a consistent user experience for a wide range of user needs across mobile and desktop devices. ‘Grab n Go’ Chrome devices provide great flexibility that is low cost and easy to manage
Real-time working with no more need to check documents in and out, or waiting for others to finish their edits – now Hackney’s users can just get stuff done
New opportunities for teams to work together using social tools such as Google Currents to make it easier to share information and more natural to work together.
A modern and dynamic set of core tools, which bring new capabilities out on a frequent basis and have the flexibility to connect easily with a wide range of other apps too
Less rigid boundaries, helping to break down silos across teams and with partners
An emphasis on people rather than technology, using the shift from legacy ‘enterprise’ tools towards technology which offers a more intuitive ‘consumer’ user experience to make work simpler and more human.

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