The office for national statistics, has just reported that December 2020 was the highest billing month in the history of the UK legal profession. It seems that despite the alarming predictions as we went into lockdown a year ago, the legal sector has weathered the COVID storm financially, but at what cost to the people who work in it?
Recent research has shown that UK employees who work from home are spending longer at their desks and have bigger workloads, are expected to do more and have increased their working week by almost 25%. They are taking shorter lunch breaks, working through sickness and blurring the boundaries between work and home life. Sound familiar?
