Caroline Spelman, take a look at how it’s done.
Even Al Gore and the whole Live Earth campaign can’t compete with us.
That’s it. Legal recruitment – saving the environment and reversing global warming one lawyer at a time.
So where’s the evidence of this? Well, it’s very simple. We bring lawyers back closer to home. Recently we have been responsible for chopping the commute of one partner from a three hour daily round trip by car (on a good day!) to one of six minutes each way by bike. Over the course of a year that works out at 669 hours being reduced to less than 50. Or put another way, 25 days 21 hours extra at home every year.
Congratulations; you change your job, we give you almost a month of your life back per year.
So without even going into carbon footprints, stress associated with increased travel and such like, the benefits of looking closer to home can be immense.
Of course we can’t always guarantee an outcome as good as this example, but at the same time this is not a unique case. In the six months before we also facilitated a similar move for another partner in the same discipline, with the commute cut from 1hr each way to less than eight minutes, along with a 20% pay increase.
So why do we still jump in our cars or on trains and commute for the equivalent of a month or more out of the 12 we get per year? Well, for some it is simple logistics; if you live remotely then it can often require a commute to get anywhere. For others it may be the quality of work; partners at Magic Circle firms may find they struggle to get work of a similar calibre in the middle of Snowdonia.
However often it can be a simple lack of local knowledge; the nearby market may have grown significantly, but because you have spent the last twenty years working in the City then you have never even realised that this is the case. For example, are you aware that:-
• more than half of the Top 25 UK firms have a presence in other major UK cities apart from London?
• there is at least one firm where, by 2014, the top EPs can draw up to £1.5m in the regions?
So you get to spend more time at home with the family, or out on the golf course (although for many lawyers that may be difficult to achieve – some spend more time out there than Nick Faldo) or any other hobbies which have suffered as work has taken over.
You lose the stress of the commute, as well as the cost in a world of spiralling fuel prices.
You get to handle top quality work without needing to sell your soul to the City.
And you reduce your carbon footprint to the size of a gnat.
Legal recruiters? Pah, call us marriage-saving time-enhancing career-improving pay-rising global warming-curing eco-warriors! Might struggle to fit it on the business card, mind.
Sorry Swampy but your time has passed; there’s a new breed of tree hugger in town.
Are you interested in getting your life-back, redressing that work-life balance that seems to allude you at every turn? Talk to one of our specialist professionals as VG Charles & Co on 0121 233 5000 / 020 7649 9094 or visit our website www.vgcharles.com
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