Show Up Half the Time and Keep Your Assigned Office - Law.com

What You Need to Know

• Long-term hybrid working arrangements may finally drive law firms to office hoteling.
• However, demand for lawyers is preventing firms from taking away assigned offices.
• Law firms experimenting with hoteling aren't breaking down office walls. Instead, they're using the reduction in offices to improve shared spaces and add amenities.

High demand for attorneys is part of the reason South Florida law firms haven’t called their lawyers back to the office full-time, and that demand might explain another phenomenon: continuing to pay for half-full offices.

There are likely a few reasons for that: Many firms don’t have leases expiring or the ability to negotiate with a landlord in the near future, social distancing has decreased the density of attorneys and staff, and firms may be planning to return to full-time in-office work in coming months and years.

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source: https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2021/11/15/show-up-half-the-time-and-keep-your-assigned-office-law-firms-allow-it-for-now/

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