November 20, 2013
Lawyers often view flexible working as ‘career suicide’, claims report
As we reported just a few weeks ago, when it comes to implementing flexible working practices, one of the UK’s most obdurate sectors is the legal profession. While an increasing number of law firms are implementing flexible working of one sort or another, progress remains slow compared to other types of organisation and is offered primarily to certain echelons of employees. Now a new survey from commercial solicitors Fletcher Day explores the reasons for this recalcitrance and suggests that many law firms are culturally reluctant to offer flexible working, may only agree to it as a short term measure and believe that flexible working is not compatible with a successful career. This view also appears to be held by over three-quarters of the lawyers surveyed, including those who may have requested flexible working arrangements recently.
November 19, 2013
2020 vision is a useless metaphor for far-sightedness in a number of ways
by Simon Heath • Comment, Facilities management, Furniture, Technology, Workplace design
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