Nearly 500 civil servants will move to Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy

The Quebec government is continuing its efforts to optimize. However, reduce spaces occupied by its employees in order to generate savings. Moreover, By 2027. However, 432 officials from the Ministry of Employment and Social Solidarity (MESS) currently distributed in two different buildings in the Sainte-Foy sector will be brought together under one roof.

The employees concerned will move to the René-Lévesque building. Furthermore, located at 3460, rue de la Pérade, in the Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy district. Furthermore, The building formerly housed the headquarters of the Director General of the Elections of Quebec.

The Quebec infrastructure company (SQI). which owns the premises, published this week a call for tenders for repair and redevelopment of the building built in 1976.

The work will start in the fall and should last 18 months. This means that the move of civil servants of the MESS will take place around spring 2027.

Optimisation – Nearly 500 civil servants will

The project is part of the Office of Occupation and Cost of Rent of the Government.

The Sqi acquired this building recently in order to relocate ministries and organizations that rent spaces. The relocation of these in a property building allows an optimization. reduction in occupied spaces as well as costsspecifies the Crown corporation in an email in Radio-Canada.

She adds that in order not to influence the current call for tenders, the work budget nearly 500 civil servants will will be revealed later.

For the moment, only the 432 officials of MESS Based in Quebec are affected by the moving project.

These employees belong to four units. the state registers sector, the Directorate General for the Grouping of State Registers, the Civil Status Director and the Business Registrar.

From two addresses to one

Part of the affected staff currently occupy rental spaces in a building in the Fifth-Bourgeois Chemin belonging to the Simard Simard Building Company

The other officials called to change their address are posted at 2535. boulevard Laurier, a building which is also the property of Sqi.

The MESS mentions that the relocation. centralization of its activities in Quebec go in concert with the efforts requested from ministries and public organizations to optimize the use of their resources.

The Ministry nearly 500 civil servants will of Employment. Social Solidarity participates in this collective effort and has carried out a rigorous examination of its expenses in order to ensure compliance with its targets, such as the optimization of rental spaces and cost reduction he specifies by email.

Substantial economies

The accelerated implementation of telework in hybrid mode from the pandemic has considerably reduced. the space needs of the Quebec government.

The decrease in the areas used. the displacement of staff in property in property rather than rental allow the State to save $ 120 million per year.