Wellness events should count towards billable hours. I’m not going to attend a zoom mindfulness session if I have to still make up that “lost” hour.

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All training and development should

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Firm wellness and diversity events are stupid. They’re basically virtue signaling for the firm at the cost of associate work life balance. If they really cared about wellness and diversity, they’d cut billable hours by 100 per associate.

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But think of the PPP!

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THIS.

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Agreed

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Do they not at your firm?

My firm's virtual wellness sessions are all scheduled after office hours...

Ah yes, please let me take a 60 minute wellness course that I can’t bill for…

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