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Report of the Boston Bar Association
Task Force on APPENDIX B Discussion Questionnaire on Attitudes regarding Reduced Hours Arrangements
___ 1. Lawyers who work a reduced schedule feel isolated within the firm. ___ 2. Reduced hour schedules should be tolerated in order to keep good people from leaving, but they should not be actively encouraged because part-time people are not as good for the firm as a full-time work force. ___ 3. Reduced hour schedules should be of limited duration, e.g., between one and three years. ___ 4. Part-time people are profitable. ___ 5. Part-time lawyers are not profitable, but it would look bad to forbid lawyers to work part-time in all instances. ___ 6. The firm's overhead/expense planning and structure is based upon an assumption that attorneys work full-time, so it is difficult for attorneys with a reduced schedule to be and/or appear to be profitable. ___ 7. Reduced hour schedules should be of limited duration because reduced schedules present an inconvenience to other attorneys in the office. ___ 8. It is more convenient to juggle one's own schedule around someone else's trial or transaction commitments than it is to juggle them around someone else's family obligations. ___ 9. It feels better to juggle one's schedule around someone else's trial or transaction commitments than it does to juggle one's own schedule around someone else's family obligations. ___ 10. It is good for lawyers who work full-time to feel that they are more valuable to the firm than those who work on a reduced schedule. ___ 11. It is good for lawyers who work part-time to feel less valued than lawyers who work full-time. ___ 12. If it were not for the fact that I believe it would have a detrimental effect on my career and how I am perceived by others, I would consider working reduced hours on a regular basis. ___ 13. I fear that if too many people decide they want to work part-time (and the firm permits them to do so) that the firm will become less stable. ___ 14. I am afraid that if too many people work part-time the firm will become less collegial or less team-like. ___ 15. Attrition at the firm has affected the quality of my relationships within the firm and/or how connected I feel to the firm. ___ 16. I am not bothered by the hours or attrition at the firm, but I know other valuable lawyers here who are.
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