The Lawyer highlights ECIJA in its report about how Spanish law firms are tackling lockdown.
Spain is now gearing for the next phase of its fights against Covid-19, with the government proclaming its state of emergency will come to end 21 June.
María González, a partner in ECIJA's 70-lawyer wide TMT team says: "Since this whole situation started there was complete flexibility for lawyers who saw it as convenient to work from home, even before the critical measures came into place."
"What's the result of this? We are used to this way of working so it hasn't had that supposed dramatic impact."
In April, González says the prolonged period of working from home started to affect lawyers personally, adding that it took a toll on their mood. To tackle this situation, ECIJA started to roll out internal and external professionals to help staff deal with the situation. ECIJA fisrt asked its own lawyers, who were already used to working from home as their normal rutine, to provide tips on firmwide webinars, and González adds these sessions became weekly.
González notes: "What we've found is that work has been a way to kind of entertain ourselves. We have detected that in some cases people have been working more hours, and everyone seems to be more connected to work than perhaps theu should. But I supppose the issue will modulate itself as we get more used to the situation."
