Linked: Quinn Emanuel Says Lawyers Can Work From Home Indefinitely
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Linked: Quinn Emanuel Says Lawyers Can Work From Home Indefinitely

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

What I am also interested in though, is whether any other staff positions were given the same consideration. If the lawyer can work from anywhere, and the impetus is to attract the best lawyers that they can, there’s no reason the same thing can’t be said about many of the other (granted not all), of the staff positions, right? If the lawyers aren’t coming to the office, why do paralegals, assistants, IT, Accounting, etc. need to?

Does Quinn Emanuel value those folks, and want the top talent at those positions too?

Linked: When Workplace Mindfulness Training Is Worse Than Nothing
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Linked: When Workplace Mindfulness Training Is Worse Than Nothing

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

We’ve seen the memes. The ones about the law firm offering a lunch hour yoga class to overworked, stressed, associates who haven’t had time to even take a lunch break in months. Or the “reward” for months of 70-80 hour work weeks is free pizza. It just makes people angry because it’s a token that does nothing to actually recognize the work involved, or correct the problems that created this mess to start with.

Workplace stress, anxiety, and other mental health issues are not just something a little mindfulness can fix. Workers are waking up to the fact that it’s the company culture that is contributing to this. Offering a way for employees to help “fix” themselves might seem like a nice thing, and in many ways it is, but doing it while not making any effort to recognize the contributions managers and corporate culture make to the problem, along with a commitment to make changes, is the very definition of “too little”.

Linked: Forget Flexibility. Your Employees Want Autonomy.
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Linked: Forget Flexibility. Your Employees Want Autonomy.

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Autonomy is understanding what needs to be done and having the freedom to decide the best way to get it all done. Managers can still contribute, they still set the priorities, they assist with roadblocks, and they are the ones who communicate what needs to be done, but when they start to go much further than that, employees feel that loss of autonomy, and they don’t like it.

Over the last couple of years, managers have been forced to sit back and let employees have autonomy. Much like my own experience, you can’t possibly expect employees who were successful and productive with that autonomy to just give it back for no reason.

Good Information on the Current State of the eDiscovery Job Market

Good Information on the Current State of the eDiscovery Job Market

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 4 minutes

I tuned into a webinar yesterday put on by ACEDS, and then saw today that Jared Coseglia, from TRU Staffing Partners, had posted an article with many of the same points he mentioned on the webinar. If you’re in the eDiscovery space or want to get into the eDiscovery space, this is worth a read:

Shared Links (weekly) October 24, 2021

Shared Links (weekly) October 24, 2021

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute
Shared Links (weekly) Sept. 12, 2021

Shared Links (weekly) Sept. 12, 2021

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute