Let’s get flexible

At our last Briefing editorial breakfast in December, we discussed how much time firms spend considering
whether popular management approaches and initiatives are really right for them. This issue’s feature topic of
agile working has rather a lot of followers. And it sounds good – including to me. You can’t deny these people are taking up less-pricey office space. But be honest – how much of this is copying competitors?

And as French employees win a new ‘right to disconnect’ from
digital life to combat national ‘info-obesity’, is the risk of  remote working burnout on the agile agenda? If you can’t manage what you can’t measure, hard management data must surely hold the key to an agile kingdom, too – however popular your policy.

LOCATING ADVANTAGE

Lots of law firms have launched agile working initiatives, stressing that it simply doesn’t matter where employees are located to get legal business done productively. But what’s the reality of agility? Briefing’s Kayli Olson investigates

INNOVATIVE LINKERS

Anyone at Taylor Wessing is welcome to invest their valuable time in innovation – but the knowledge management team is well placed to demonstrate exactly what’s involved

AHEAD IN THE CLOUD

Firms are failing to grasp the reality of agile working, but accessing more systems that contribute directly to productivity via the cloud is a clear direction of travel, says Tikit development director Mark Garnish