Designing a successful hybrid working strategy

Read the CTS guide on how law firms can build a competitive hybrid working environment to attract and retain talent.

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Since the global pandemic and the accompanying government-enforced lockdowns, the sector has been forced to review their working habits and embrace remote working.

As the world enters ‘the new normal’, and Freedom Day in the UK seems a long way behind us, offices are reopening, and businesses are accommodating a blend of home and office working: the hybrid-working model.

But behind the scenes, the world is moving into an era of ‘The Great Resignation’.

New research from the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management has found that a large proportion of employees will expect a level of ‘hybrid’ working in the future – with
just under half (44%) of the workforce wanting to work from the office for 3 days or fewer each week. Additionally, results also found that 63% of employees now believe the office to be unnecessary – this was a rise of one-fifth since the first lockdown (51%).

Train your own, grow your firm: the business case for the SQE in SME law firms Case Study

Henna Zafar | Business development manager, BARBRI |
For many of the SME law firms we work with, this autumn is the first time they will support trainees through the SQE. The concerns we hear are consistent — firms don’t feel they know enough about the SQE, most don’t have a learning and development team and partners are already stretched. Those concerns are […]

Is your law firm ready for the next decade?

Chelsea Goldsby | Operations director, Osprey Approach |
Almost half of respondents to research into the Welsh legal sector are uncertain whether their current business model will remain sustainable over the next ten years. For managing partners, it raises important questions about succession, ownership, and retirement, as well as how to fund growth and prepare the firm for its next stage.  The Welsh […]