The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) will temporarily move about 750 staff out of its Wellington office after receiving engineering advice about parts of the building.<\/p>\n
Staff working at the department’s 45 Pipitea St office would be relocated to other DIA properties across the capital while remedial seismic work was carried out.<\/p>\n
DIA chief executive Paul James said the department had recently received engineering advice relating to “specific floors” of the building.<\/p>\n
“Based on that advice we have decided to temporarily relocate staff to our other Wellington properties,” he said.<\/p>\n
All staff were expected to be out of the Pipitea St building by Friday and would be permitted to return once the seismic work was complete. <\/p>\n
The DIA did not say how long the remedial work was expected to take. <\/p>\n
James said the department was planning a “coordinated and safe exit” and there was enough capacity at its other Wellington offices to accommodate the 750 affected workers.<\/p>\n
“We do not expect any service disruption for New Zealanders because of this change,” he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) will temporarily move about 750 staff out of its Wellington office after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[687,111,43,139,69,52],"class_list":["post-600269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-housing-and-infrastructure","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}