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Action Step – Parental Leave: Critical Policy Features
The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.
In our 2022 Law Firm Flexibility Benchmarking Study and Flexibility Benchmarking Summit we discussed trends regarding workplace flexibility, hybrid work, parental leave, and other related policies and infrastructure. From our experience and research, it is clear that employees value holistic workplace flexibility and leave, and assess their organizations on these offerings. While many organizations have expanded their workplace flexibility and hybrid work programs since the pandemic, organizations should also be providing strong parental leave benefits. There is a noticeable discrepancy between organizations that enhanced their parental leave policies since the pandemic compared to those that have not. Make sure that your parental leave policies are up-to-date, so as not to lose out on recruitment and retention…
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Action Step – Trends in Workplace Flexibility, Hybrid Work & Parental Leave
The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.
Our recently released 2022 Law Firm Flexibility Benchmarking Study and Flexibility Benchmarking Summit discussed trends regarding workplace flexibility, hybrid work, parental leave, and other related policies and infrastructure. These trends highlight areas of progress as well as critical next steps we must now focus on. The Alliance details below the significant trends and recommendations to truly help move the needle.
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To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.
Action Step – The Flip Side of Flexibility is Responsibility
The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.
Since the pandemic, workplace flexibility has gained great traction. Organizations, leaders, and individuals experienced first-hand many benefits of hybrid/virtual work. Our 2022 Law Firm Flexibility Benchmarking Study (“2022 Study”), which will be released soon, found that hybrid and virtual work has significantly increased, from 48% in our 2019 Law Firm Flexibility Benchmarking Study to 80.9% in our 2022 Study. These results demonstrate the critical impact of the pandemic on increased acceptance of hybrid/virtual work. As many organizations have adopted new workplace flexibility policies, some are now struggling with how to implement them to make them as effective as possible. In order for flexibility to work, organizations must be intentional, inclusive and iterative. The Alliance has always stressed that the flip side of flexibility is responsibility. In order to make flexibility truly work, everyone – organizations, leaders and individuals – must take responsibility and be intentional.
Members: continue reading this Action Step in the Member Resource Center
To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.