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Successful Hybrid Plans Offer 'Best of Both Worlds'

By Anthony Davies
February 01, 2023

March 2023 will mark the three-year anniversary of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and the mandated closure of non-essential businesses. During the two-year span of work-from-home that ensued, law firms — for the most part — performed well financially, posting record profits.

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The Main RTO Driver: People

But starting in late 2021, the drumbeat of "return-to-the-office" began and now — somewhere in the neighborhood of two years later of that — it begs the question: how are firms doing with their return-to-office? What is the market bearing? What "return-to-office" programs — if any — have been successful?

What we are seeing is a variety of successful measures that are designed to help attorneys get what they want: a best-of-both worlds scenario where they keep some work-from-home and fold-in an opportunity to intentionally connect and collaborate with colleagues in the office. They keyword is "intentional" but we'll get to that in a moment.

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