Labor of Law: Pursuit of Lighter Workloads Isn't 'Pie in the Sky' - Law.com

What You Need to Know

• Worker attitudes about balancing jobs and home have shifted over the past year.
• The pandemic has helped drive the reassessment.
• A smattering of companies have reduced the work week to four days.

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There are lawyers who work hours so long they miss baseball games, and there are those who after giving birth will leave the delivery room to find a phone, and make the calls necessary to negotiate a business deal. When Deborah Majoras started working in the legal industry in the late 1980s, the Procter and Gamble Co. chief legal officer said in a recent interview, these were the types of stories she and her peers would hear.

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