It came as news to us that national top-tier firm Allens Arthur Robinson recently offered staff a 4-day working week.

or 4 days clean?

As reported in the current BRW:

Allens Arthur Robinson managing partner Michael Rose concedes that 115 staff members… left the firm as part of the voluntary redundancy program. But there is no plans for further cuts. “We had about 5% of staff take up a four-day week, and anyone who accrued annual leave of more than a year we encouraged them to take it,” he says. ‘We haven’t mandated anyone to go on a four-day week.”

With rumours circulating that AAR was recently poised to make further cuts to headcount, the Firm Spy applauds any initiative that Allens can use to save jobs. Of course, there is always the concern that a four-day-per-week worker must fit five days worth of work into four. Let the Firm Spy know first if the 4-day week is just a ruse to save the Allens partnership 20% in lawyer pay.

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