In this webinar on 23 July, Legal IT Insider’s editor Caroline Hill chatted with David Aird, IT Director at DAC Beachcroft LLP; Shane Scott, IT Director at Gowling WLG; and Hamzah Hafesji, group product manager for performance and talent at our webinar partner Advanced, about what arrangements they think work – and don’t work – when it comes to a return to the office.
In the wake of the Covid pandemic, it was widely assumed that working from home and hybrid working were here to stay for good. However, law firms are taking very different approaches: at Gowling WLG, legal teams have to be in 60% of the time and non-legal 40%. DAC Beachcroft, meanwhile, has a three-tier flexible approach depending on role type, with, in some cases, no mandatory days in the office.
We discussed these arrangements in some depth, including garnering the panel’s view on how to achieve maximum productivity and what the key issues are to overcome for an arrangement to succeed. Hafesji, for one, is of the view that there should be no strictly mandated time in the office and that you should have a grown-up, not parent-child, relationship with your employees.
Have a listen to the webinar, which included plenty of questions and feedback from our live audience. While the panel tried to disagree with one another for a good debate, in many cases, there was a lot of consensus.
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