Unlimited PTO Policy: Benefits and Hidden Pitfalls
May 28, 2022
Unlimited paid time off (PTO), like unlimited brownies or all-you-can-eat bar food sounds like an amazing idea but in practice often yields unwanted consequences.
Bad Hire Cost: Avoid This Expensive Mistake
April 20, 2022
The cost of a bad hire isn’t quite on par with that of marrying the wrong person but it’s close. Bringing a new employee onboard means investing in a new relationship and when things go south both tangible and intangible resources are wasted.
Legal Recruiting Strategies to Tackle Staffing Challenges
February 23, 2022
As Covid-19 numbers decrease and governments begin to tepidly reduce restrictions worldwide, it can be easy to assume that the many issues originating from the pandemic are beginning to ease. This may be true in certain cases, but where the staffing crisis is concerned, it certainly is not. Why? Because the staffing crisis didn’t originate with the pandemic in the first place. Rather, the pandemic simply drove the many extant employee engagement issues into overdrive. While fewer people may be falling ill, no fewer are falling out of love with their jobs…which is why now’s the time to get creative with legal recruiting.
Work-Life Balance Tips for Legal Professionals Today
December 9, 2021
If you’re a parent and have ever hosted a sleepover, you’re familiar with the childish competition to see who can stay up the latest. And if you were ever a teenager, you know about the myriad of dumb challenges teenagers use to size each other up. As adults, you’d think we’d have grown out of such juvenile behavior, and yet the number of professionals who measure their worth—and that of others—based on how busy they are says otherwise. But here’s the thing: being “too busy” is neither respectable, nor healthy. Work life balance, on the other hand, is both—and top talent knows this.
Employee Engagement Strategies to Retain Talent
November 24, 2021
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously stated that the only constant in life is change. This applies as much to the world of business as to anything else and one of the main changes businesses owners face is an evolution in the fundamental concepts that keep their enterprise ticking. Communication does not mean the same thing it did thirty years ago. Hiring today has nothing to do with bygone times when a person stayed with a company for life. Productivity is in flux as individual cultures grapple with new global norms. The most recent change of this sort involves employee engagement, which in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic does not mean what it used to.
Law Firm Bonuses That Boost Morale Without Big Costs
November 9, 2021
You’ve read the news and you know workers are quitting their jobs in droves. The so-called “Great Resignation” is upon us, and it’s making employers’ jobs difficult at a time when life isn’t exactly easy. Law firms, with their culture of long hours and high stress, have been hit especially hard, which is why Big Law is responding with a tried and true strategy: money.