To:
From:
Hanne Rasmussen
BLACK, Skye
Ref:
Date:
ECPRD 2959
6 November 2015
Civil Service Relocation
Dear Hanne,
You requested information on:
1. How many governmental jobs or public workplaces have been relocated from the capital
region to other regions in your country during the last 15 years and what is the percentage of
employees that chose to relocate with the jobs?
2. Information on the costs per job per institution and what expenses that are included in
these costs?
3. Did the employees maintain their salary at the same level after the relocation and did they
get a financial compensation or incentive to relocate?
4. Information on the consequences for the efficiency of the institutions and on how large an
extent this was calculated into the relocation of jobs?
5. Access to nature is the number one priority when Danes relocate from larger cities to the
country side. Do you have any information regarding the relocation of your national
employees e.g. if they chose to commute, buy new housing in the area the jobs was
relocated to, or if they chose to buy housing in a third place in the country side?
Unfortunately the data required to answer several of your question is not collected. The civil
service does not routinely release information regarding relocation of employees nor whether
they chose to relocate. Equally there is no publically available data on the costs per job per
institution nor the expenses attributed. I am able to provide the numbers of civil servants
working in each region in selected years from 2002 and from this obtain the % based in the
capital each year. Please the table below:
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