London firm Taylor Wessing encourages 'healthy competition' between associates

London firm Taylor Wessing has introduced a novel policy to increase productivity among associates – releasing details of each associate’s recorded hours to their colleagues. There is more than one way of looking at a policy like this: it might be founded on the merits to healthy competition, or the idea that humiliation before one’s peers is likely to encourage better higher productivity. Perhaps a little of both. But Taylor Wessing is not the only firm doing it: at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain each associate’s computer has a screen display that changes colour depending upon profitability – red for those layers that are costing the firm money, yellow for those that are doing okay but need to try harder, and green for the most profitable lawyers.

London firm Taylor Wessing encourages 'healthy competition' between associates rollonfriday.com Mon, May 9, 2011