Number of IPO Staff working abroad
Published 18 December 2024
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Date of release:
21 September 2023.
Request:
This is an information request relating to the number of staff who are allowed to work from abroad.
Please include the following information, for the 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 financial years:
- the number of staff, per year, given permission to work from abroad
- for each member of staff granted permission, please provide their pay band, the country they have been allowed to work from, the length of time that they have been allowed to work for and the dates they were allowed to work from abroad. Please also provide the reason. If any of this is not possible to provide, please provide the remaining information
Information released:
Please see attached a spreadsheet of the occasions when Intellectual Property Office staff were granted permission to work from abroad, or in two instances denied permission. The list does not include staff who have been required to travel abroad for business purposes, e.g. to attend meetings with international intellectual property organisations.
We only hold records of requests to work from abroad from January 2022 and we do not record pay bands. Please be aware that we only allow working overseas in exceptional circumstances in accordance with the following guidance:
As travel restrictions begin to lift, individuals are being allowed to travel overseas for leisure. Employees may wish to travel to these countries, for example to visit family members, and may ask to combine this with working remotely overseas during their visit. Due to the complexities surrounding remote working abroad and recent changes concerning tax and immigration issues from day one, the IPO will only consider exceptional requests to work remotely on a case-by-case basis and requests can only be granted on a temporary basis for up to three months.