Standard Life to cut costs with remote working

Employees will have mobile access to corporate software by June

Standard Life is to provide workers with remote online access to corporate applications and data by June.

The financial services group wants to retain control of its central data centres in Scotland, while providing remote access to business applications for some 800 international staff, and is working with Citrix to implement the necessary software in the firm’s Edinburgh data centre.

‘We expect a 30 to 40 per cent saving in our telecoms costs, as well as a less quantifiable benefit from increased staff productivity,’ said Andrew Gordon, a manager in Standard Life’s IT operations.

The Citrix technology will allow the firm to centrally control the level of user access to data and documents, to reduce security and data protection risks.