Texas: when are your firms forcing you back into the office?

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Hilarious phrasing. What year are you?

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TL1 sounds like we are doing the same things. The weekly get together a are a necessary evil, IMHO, but are way more of a beating than they are helpful. We are at a size where we invite the staff to participate too, and I think the weekly meeting is probably most helpful to them. I agree that our first years especially have the biggest challenge getting up the curve. I feel like it is a lot more work to schedule and try to teach and collaborate on the phone or by Zoom. One of the strategies I have employed to try to make communication as seamless as possible is to encourage my teammates to just call me if they want to talk. Don’t email to schedule a time. Just call. We’re all in for some growing pains as we see daylight.

Hasn’t made any indication we are going back anytime soon. Dallas V50.

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Not big law. But big 4 accounting-sept 6 is the earliest and it will be some sort of flex after that

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Beginning of May.

Houston and yes.

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