Agile or flexible working?
Overview
What is agile?
According to the Macmillan English Dictionary:
Able to move quickly and easily / able to think and understand quickly.
Relating to or denoting a method of project management, used especially for software development that is characterized by the division of tasks into short phases of work and frequent reassessment and adaptation of plans.
What is flexible working?
According to the Cambridge Dictionary:
A situation in which an employer allows people to choose the times that they work so that they can do other things, for example spend time with their children.
Agile working seems to be hot topic for most businesses but not yet so much for law firms. Law firms do talk about it and there are many articles about the topic in the context of “the next law firm” or “law firm of the future”. I do believe however that the concept of agile working within law firms is misunderstood and I will explain why.