Goodness gracious. Did you see all the grief that Weil Gotshal & Manges got for its recent memo on email policies? Purportedly penned by its chief talent officer Lisa Cuevas, the memo essentially says that the firm is adopting European-type work life balance policies.
Here’s an excerpt of the memo:
Reports that both France and Germany have either considered or adopted workplace rules that ban emails to employees after their work hours have caused us to examine our own workplace and the impact that being “always on” has on our employees and their families. All studies we have seen point to reduced productivity. . . Effective May 1, 2015, the following rules will be in effect, implemented by software in each office:
(1) Email will not be transmitted between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. . .
(2) Emails will not be transmitted between 11:00 p.m. Friday and 6:00 a.m. Monday, also implemented in the local time zone for each Weil office and also subject to opt out.
(3) When an employee is on vacation, no emails will be transmitted from 11:00 p.m. on the day prior to start of vacation to 6:00 a.m. on the first day back at work after vacation.
