PWC's WFH Decision & Effect on Legal Market Forum

[bigboybob]

Title: A 'Big Four' firm will allow 40,000 employees to work from home.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/02/business ... index.html

Thoughts on what effect this will have on WFH policies for law firms? Seems like a big deal to me.

[the lsat failure]

Meh. Until a notable law firm with thousands of lawyers does the same, I doubt this will change the hybrid model we've had throughout the pandemic. There's just not enough pushback and people are generally content with the flexibility they've been given.

[CanadianWolf]

I agree that PwC's decision is a "big deal" in the world of professional service firms.

PwC's decision recognizes the realities of the changes in the workplace brought on by the ongoing pandemic and enhanced technology which make working from remote locations possible--as well as necessary--in this era of 24 hours/7 days a week global economy.

[Anonymous User]

International Tax Associate here - I have to say I’m quite please with this. I can essentially move permanently to, say, Texas and still be part of the LA/NYC office.

[Anonymous User]

How is permanent WFH supposed to work anyway? You don't have an office? You're not part of any market? Or more like you have an office but have flexibility. The latter would be great, going into the office 2-3 days a week is the optimal situation imo.

[Anonymous User]

International Tax Associate here - I have to say I’m quite please with this. I can essentially move permanently to, say, Texas and still be part of the LA/NYC office.

Won't they dock your pay? Still worth it imi

[2013]

This works for PwC because almost all employees don’t have an office anyway. They have cubicles or whatever they call them and employees have to hotel into the desks. This applies to everyone who is below director.