Work Out: Does Your Law Firm Have a Remote Work Policy?
Most law firms are distributed businesses, at this point. And, even as states begin to slowly reopen during the continuing coronavirus pandemic, they are likely to remain that way, at least in part, moving forward. But, even as the economy leaves the pandemic in its wake, at some future point, the way that people work is likely to be changed forever. That, in part, means that working from home will become more accepted in the law firm environment, and a larger part of every lawyer’s workday. What the pandemic has exposed is that there are significant advantages to working from home , many of which are centered around cost savings, including: the reduction of a physical office footprint, the move to cloud services and a reduction in commuting costs and times for employees and staff. One of the reasons that law firms have not more fully engaged remote work/distributed workforces, is because there are no rails around that proce...