Comments on: What Will an Economic Recovery Mean to your Staff? http://mikemcbrideonline.com/2010/01/what-will-an-economic-recovery-mean-to-your-staff/ Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:23:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: I Love Being Right, A Wake Up Call for Management | The Many Faces of Mike McBride http://mikemcbrideonline.com/2010/01/what-will-an-economic-recovery-mean-to-your-staff/comment-page-1/#comment-3724 I Love Being Right, A Wake Up Call for Management | The Many Faces of Mike McBride Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:08:48 +0000 http://mikemcbrideonline.com/2010/01/what-will-an-economic-recovery-mean-to-your-staff/#comment-3724 [...] written by me, Jan 18, 2010: I’ve been thinking, for quite awhile now, that when the job market bounces back and people [...] [...] written by me, Jan 18, 2010: I’ve been thinking, for quite awhile now, that when the job market bounces back and people [...]

]]> By: Mike McBride http://mikemcbrideonline.com/2010/01/what-will-an-economic-recovery-mean-to-your-staff/comment-page-1/#comment-713 Mike McBride Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:55:49 +0000 http://mikemcbrideonline.com/2010/01/what-will-an-economic-recovery-mean-to-your-staff/#comment-713 From the IT perspective yes, there's always more churn in lower positions, as opposed to director level positions. The higher up you get, the more your career is defined by what you know about the legal world, so you'd expect that. Network gurus, web developers, tech support folks, etc. can work in any industry, their skills translate. CIO's have spent a long time understanding the legal industry and applying technology to it, so they become more specialized. (Lit Support folks, like myself have even fewer choices really, outside of the legal world, or corp. legal dept. what good does my expertise do?)<br /><br />Outside of IT though, when it comes to legal secretaries, paralegals, marketing folks, associates, etc. I can see a lot of turnover. Some will be moving out of the legal market altogether, others will move to other firms or different areas of the legal industry (courts, corporations, etc.). When opportunities start to come to them, how much loyalty are they going to feel after watching peers get laid off, being forced to pick up the slack with a smaller staff, getting their pay and benefits cut, and other ways firms have managed expenses through this? Like I said, what are people doing to fight this and keep their best performers engaged, or do they even see it coming? From the IT perspective yes, there's always more churn in lower positions, as opposed to director level positions. The higher up you get, the more your career is defined by what you know about the legal world, so you'd expect that. Network gurus, web developers, tech support folks, etc. can work in any industry, their skills translate. CIO's have spent a long time understanding the legal industry and applying technology to it, so they become more specialized. (Lit Support folks, like myself have even fewer choices really, outside of the legal world, or corp. legal dept. what good does my expertise do?)

Outside of IT though, when it comes to legal secretaries, paralegals, marketing folks, associates, etc. I can see a lot of turnover. Some will be moving out of the legal market altogether, others will move to other firms or different areas of the legal industry (courts, corporations, etc.). When opportunities start to come to them, how much loyalty are they going to feel after watching peers get laid off, being forced to pick up the slack with a smaller staff, getting their pay and benefits cut, and other ways firms have managed expenses through this? Like I said, what are people doing to fight this and keep their best performers engaged, or do they even see it coming?

]]> By: Jason http://mikemcbrideonline.com/2010/01/what-will-an-economic-recovery-mean-to-your-staff/comment-page-1/#comment-712 Jason Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:26:40 +0000 http://mikemcbrideonline.com/2010/01/what-will-an-economic-recovery-mean-to-your-staff/#comment-712 Thinking from a legal IT point of view I think you're probably right. And from a UK perspective I think London law firms will probably be hit hardest as I guess the opportunities for better paid positions will be greater.<br /><br />It'll be intersting to see if the "churn" is just at the lower positions or whether senior managers and directors in IT will start to move away from legal? Thinking from a legal IT point of view I think you're probably right. And from a UK perspective I think London law firms will probably be hit hardest as I guess the opportunities for better paid positions will be greater.

It'll be intersting to see if the "churn" is just at the lower positions or whether senior managers and directors in IT will start to move away from legal?

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