Managing partners at Stephenson Harwood offer lawyers and other staff the opportunity as City companies strive to move beyond office-based work to a post-pandemic cultural shift to flexible and remote models. The company’s junior lawyers have an initial salary of 90 90,000, which means that whoever takes over the officer would lose about .000 18,000. Stephenson Harwood, one of the top 50 highest-paid law firms in the United Kingdom and headquartered in London, employs more than 1,100 people and has offices in Paris, Greece, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea. . A company spokesman told the Times that the new employment policy would apply to staff at its London offices and at most of the company’s international offices. However, partners will not be eligible. Full-shareholders receive an average of £ 685,000 per year. The new wage sacrifice for the full-time distance policy comes after the company’s experience in hiring lawyers during the London-based coronavirus pandemic, where the cost of living tends to be higher. However, the company said it was expecting only a handful of employees to take up the full-time job option from home because “for the vast majority of our people, our hybrid work policy works well.” Staff already have the ability to work remotely two days a week. “Like many companies, we see that it’s worth being together in the office regularly, and we can also offer our people flexibility,” he said. While many companies are looking for ways to entice employees who thrive on flexible and distance work to return to the office, Airbnb has moved in the opposite direction, announcing that its staff can live and work wherever they want. On Thursday, Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, wrote on Twitter that employees could work from anywhere in the country they live in without having to suffer a pay cut. In addition, he said staff had the flexibility to “live and work in 170 countries for up to 90 days a year at each location” as part of a plan that would also include “more” staff connecting in person for about a week . every three months. Subscribe to the daily Business Today email or follow the Guardian Business on Twitter at @BusinessDesk Last month, a pilot program was announced involving more than 3,000 employees at 60 companies across the UK who took part in a four-day trial week. The program, believed to be the largest in the world, will run from June to December. It comes as the push for companies to adopt a shorter working week – mostly without loss of wages, while aiming for higher productivity – is gaining momentum as a way to improve working conditions.
