A recent YouGov poll discovered that 42% of employees believed that they worked better when working remotely – yet just 8% of UK businesses trust staff to work away from the office. Statistics from BT support this – they claim that with 70,000 workers based flexibly either from home or from customer sites, they have saved £500 million in buildings costs and seen employee productivity up by 30%! What do we think? It’s a win/win situation – and we have expanded our remote working. Many of our lawyers work remotely from home regularly – some on a specified day of every week. We have found considerable benefits:

• Some fee earners have seen significant increases in billable hours (i.e. productivity) when working from home.
• It keeps staff happy and helps us to recruit and keep great quality staff.
• Lots of time, journey costs and pollution are saved by reducing travel.

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For more information on remote working and how it could save you money, contact Tim Bishop on tim.bishop@bishopslaw.com or 01722 424424.