2019: staff policies improve, but not mentoring

and mergers are getting tougher. ouch!

by marc rosenberg
the rosenberg survey

firms are stepping up their efforts to be more liberal and staff-friendly with their staff policies. more unlimited pto polices including many variations of this, working remotely, staff setting their own hours, etc.

unfortunately, i am not seeing any changes in the lip service most partners give to staff mentoring. eighty percent of firms never make it to the second generation – many reasons for this but a big one is that the quality of partner mentoring sucks.