DLA Piper is offering its international workforce options to reduce hours and pay amid the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The global firm is allowing all lawyers and staff across its non-U.S. operations to apply for two voluntary flexible working schemes, as part of which they can either ask to temporarily cut or change their standard working hours or take a sabbatical.

The scheme is a result of an emotional wellbeing survey that was sent to the DLA workforce to ask how people are coping with life under lockdown.