SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS IMPACT REPORT 2021 / 2022
Workplace
WORKPLACE
We strive to create the right culture and work environment for our people. As a firm we continuously try to enhance our employee experience and the culture of our workplace. We strive for excellence in training and opportunities for our people because the brightest minds deserve the best projects to work on.
OUR PURPOSE
Our purpose as a firm is to represent all-round excellence in the law firm experience for both clients and our people. Creating the right culture and work environment for our people is important to our firm. A renewed focus on our firm’s purpose in 2021 has provided us with clarity around what we stand for. Our experience principles help us to deliver on this.
They help us stay true to our purpose and to deliver on our strategic objectives:
To ensure the best experiences and to help us continually improve our workplace environment for our people, we continue to evolve our culture, our use of technology and our ways of working. The past 12 months have provided us with the opportunity to improve our agility, take stock of our new working environment post pandemic and to plan for an exciting future for the firm and our people. We were pleased to implement our hybrid work policy for the firm in February 2022. This was in recognition of the need to respond to shifts in the external environment, very strong feedback from our people and the wish to embrace new ways of working post pandemic. It allows our people to work up to 50% of their time remotely, while empowering teams to agree the best means of meeting and engaging to serve both clients and team needs.
Delivery on our experience principles means clients get the benefit of joined up commercially astute thinking and advice, with the highest service levels, truly focused on delivery and unrivalled added value. It also means that our people should experience a work environment that works for them, where they can bring their true selves to work and grow as individuals, both personally and professionally.