I’m unbelievably depressed at the thought of going back to the office five days a week. I hate my firm’s management with a passion.

If any firms in Texas are being flexible going forward, please let me know.

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I concur. Like this was maybe fine or more tolerable from home but the thought of going back is not good.

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I have an honest question: what is the penalty if you just don’t go back 5 days a week? Like, what will the firm do if you continue to bill like you were in the office and then you just weren’t? I see a number of associates complaining about it, but like what if you just went in for a week or two and then slowly just didn’t. I think it will be hard for a firm to fire you for not abiding by an attendance policy that was unwritten before and now written and completely baseless.

If you want your firm to listen, make a financial argument about it and why your in-person attendance doesn’t and should not matter.

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I know someone that moved permanently to a city where the firm does not have an office and plans on giving notice when such firm formally calls for a full return.

P1’s comment just made me think of how many people are probably doing this. There’s a number of articles floating around talking about how the pandemic made a large portion of the American work force rethink how they want to spend their life (read: work) when everything returns to normal. I can imagine a number of people who have moved permanently just don’t go back and continue working/getting paid until the firm fires them. Or, to P1s comment, some firms will just never do anything.

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Same...I have been in a total spiral since our firm announced a return to office policy that seems like a total culture shift from where we were pre-Covid.

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Our firm has three “offices” in Texas (10 total cities, 70+ attorneys) but everyone works remotely and always will (unless they want to rent their own office space). You keep 80% of the $ on your origination/your work, and 58% when doing work on others’ clients. 8+ years of practice with some BigLaw in there is the minimum requirement. No billable quotas and you set your own rate.

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If you want to be remote, why do you need the flexible firm to be in Texas? 😀

Got it! I’m in that boat too.

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