Reed Smith focuses on employee wellbeing with new programme
updated on 24 January 2018
Global law firm Reed Smith has launched a new programme, Wellness Works, to support the wellbeing of its employees.
The legal profession has a long-held and justified reputation for its long-hours, high-stress culture. The new programme aims to improve on Reed Smith’s existing wellness initiatives by supporting staff in stress management, achieving a good work-life balance and health mindfulness, which includes mental and physical health. The scheme is the latest in the firm’s drive to create and maintain a supportive culture where staff receive training on mental health and substance abuse issues, and employees can be open about problems they are experiencing.
The first round of training, focusing on stress resilience, is set to be delivered across all the firm’s offices in February.
Sandy Thomas, Reed Smith’s global managing partner and executive committee chair, said: “This firm’s most valuable resource is its people, which makes their health and wellbeing critical to our firm, our clients and our success. The legal profession is inherently high pressure, and there can be a tendency for personnel in all roles to minimise or ignore their own well-being to focus on the demands of work. I have high hopes that Wellness Works will help all of us achieve the level of work-life balance we each desire and so richly deserve.”
