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The Shift: COVID-19’s Lasting (and Exhausting) Effect on Legal Departments
This past year legal departments found out just how elastic they can be. Call it “agility” or “resilience,” but the fact is in-house leaders absorbed extra work from hiring freezes, COVID-19-related litigation, data privacy concerns and workforce issues, all from the sometimes chaotic confines of their homes. So to say that this past year has created a lot of “challenges” is a bit of an understatement for those in the trenches. The truth is that the challenges this past year presented have been immense, particularly on people’s mental health. While the 20-foot walk to the “office” may have seemed like a dream when compared to the two-hour commute into the city in the early days of the pandemic, running a nearly fully virtual workforce for over a year has undeniably created real issues around connectivity, morale and engagement.
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