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They do need coaching, however I feel loads of them need free time, or the phantasm of free time, sitting at dwelling, the place you don’t have company protocols and procedures.
So, I feel a few of these habits or behaviors crept in, or acquired calcified, throughout that interval they had been away [from the office], and other people figured, ‘Why ought to I’ve to endure an hour or an hour and a half commute in some locations, versus simply being productive sitting at dwelling?’
— Ronald Wooden, managing director at Main Lindsey & Africa, and the creator of the newest model of MLA’s Regulation Agency Tradition Survey, in feedback given to the American Lawyer on one of many explanation why he thinks associates perceived a destructive tradition shift at their corporations: the shortage of distant work alternatives now that they’re being required to return to the workplace to work for 3 or extra days every week.
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