August 19th in Credit Crunch, News by Editor .

Happy lawyers shouldering increased burden

In the current downturn Law firm employees are working the equivalent of an extra day a week compared to the start of the year, as departing staff members are not replaced by pressured employers.

The Lawyer sets out details of the Research from recruitment consultant Badenoch & Clark which found that one in five employees claims to have an increased workload with 41 per cent of 1,000 respondents saying their firms had not replaced staff that had left.

According to the …

In the current downturn Law firm employees are working the equivalent of an extra day a week compared to the start of the year, as departing staff members are not replaced by pressured employers.

According to the report, despite the increased workloads, the research found that 82 per cent of lawyers are happy in their jobs, although just 77 per cent are planning to take their full holiday entitlement this year…Really?

The feedback we have been receiving over the last few weeks would be stretching the definition of happiness and the comments posted on The Lawyer seem to reflect a slightly different mood:

I also find this hard to believe….

Date: 18-Aug-2008 @ 16:49PM
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4 Comments

dd
August 19, 2008

what b$%&cks I can tell you there are not many happy people floating round our offices at the moment; the ones that haven’t been laid off for ‘performance related’ reasons
big big
August 20, 2008

the happiest lawyers i know are the ones that spend least time in the office and more time at their overseas boltholes; there are’t many happy associates about at the moment imho
me
August 20, 2008

this is lame.

they are happy to be employed.