As law firm employees continue to spend far less time at the office than they did before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, firms are responding both by reducing unused office space to save on overhead while concurrently expanding the amount of space dedicated to collaborative work.
Professional technology software company Maptician surveyed 26 law firms to ascertain current workplace trends with regard to office real estate, hybrid work technology and remote work offerings. The company found that more than 58% of firms surveyed reported increasing flexible in-office seating, while 46% of firms have reduced their ratio of seats to total professionals. Meanwhile, respondents respondents indicated that they’d increased space dedicated to meetings and group work by an average of 6.6%.