The national media has reported that Leicester City Council could be
on the verge of spending £40,000 on iPads for its councillors, despite
plans to cut 1,000 staff.
while cutting staff, Ross Grant, leader of the Conservative opposition
for Leicester City Council, explained that the iPads could actually
save the council jobs and money. "We are in the process of replacing our main buildings containing
1,400 staff. There is a £60m budget for this. If we could shift 300 to
400 staff to work from home using [mobile solutions such as the iPad
and] cloud computing, there could potentially be tens of millions of
pounds of savings. That could save jobs down the line." ... read the full story at
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