Dentons introduces de-stressing initiative
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All staff at Denton Wilde Sapte are to be given training in stress management in a bid to reduce the cost of ill-health to the firm.
The initiative will see all lawyers undertake hour-long training on recognising signs of stress and improved management techniques.
The firm’s health and wellbeing officer Carole Watling said this was not due to problems created by the recession.
“We think it will promote the health and wellbeing of those in the firm. We realise that if we don’t look after our people now the firm and the country will suffer,”
said Watling.
She pointed to national data suggesting that employers lose on average 7.4 days per year as a result of mental ill-health, with a cost per employee per year of £692.
“We’re a professional partnership,” she said. “You can imagine it will be more expensive [for us].”
The firm also offers counselling and relaxation skills as part of its longstanding ‘Health Balance’ programme, with “incidents of certain illnesses” having reduced as a result, according to Watling.
Readers' comments (4)
Anonymous | 1-Feb-2010 2:17 pm
Getting rid of some of the dead wood at partnership level would help reduce the stress levels for associates!
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Anonymous | 2-Feb-2010 11:26 am
Is the above comment a humoros reference to the dead wood in the article's picture?
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Anonymous | 2-Feb-2010 6:07 pm
DWS are a stressful firm to work with in the first place. Move jobs and ones mental and physical health will resume.
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Anonymous | 10-Feb-2010 1:31 pm
DWS should offer this to the NQs it didn't keep on.
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