ANALYSIS: Lawyer Work-From-Home Options Decrease During Endemic

As the Covid-19 pandemic becomes an endemic, masks and sanitizing stations aren’t the only things disappearing from law firms and corporations. The flexibility to work from home (WFH) is also diminishing as return-to-office (RTO) policies requiring in-office days increase, according to a recent Bloomberg Law survey.

At the beginning of 2023, Bloomberg Law asked 868 attorneys about their “current workplace situation.” Almost a quarter (24%) of overall respondents to the 2022 Workload & Hours Survey (H2) reported that they were fully in office. This percentage is double the percentage (12%) reported in spring 2022. And it isn’t just law firms ...