How we work

Our approach to how we work is agile

We trust and support our people to work where and when they need to

We are inclusive

Our framework is a guide

We care about the wellbeing of our people

Our office spaces are the centre of gravity for the firm

Priya Gill, Audit Associate

As a trainee, I really value working in the office both alongside my peers but also with my manager and more experienced colleagues.

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Graham Howard, Tax Director

Priya Gill, Audit Associate

As a trainee, I really value working in the office both alongside my peers but also with my manager and more experienced colleagues. We have a few days a week where the whole team will try to be in together, and I enjoy being able to work alongside and learn off others, you can definitely learn more from others when working alongside them in-person rather than virtually. Quite often, when we get together in the office as trainees, we’ll all have been on different clients or experiencing different situations so it’s always nice when we get together as a group and can share what we have been doing and the different experienced we have had. We have also made use of the office on a weekend – not to work but to study, which has been great and it’s nice to study together with other people who are going through the same situations. Whilst I enjoy spending the time in the office, I do really appreciate the flexibility we have in choosing where we work and being able to work at home. When I first started with the firm I was living in Birmingham, close to the office but overtime I realised that the living situation wasn’t good for my mental health and I started to struggle. The firm were really good at helping me, I had a wellbeing call and they put adjustments in place to help me. After this, I made the decision to move in with family, which actually means I have a commute of over an hour when I work in the office. If we didn’t have the flexibility we have, I wouldn’t have been able to make this move but the fact that I don’t have to do the commute every day makes it more manageable.

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Graham Howard, Tax Director

Balancing how I work is very important to me. From my experience of utilising the How we work framework, I’ve discovered two principal benefits. One of them, as a parent of three school-aged children, is that I can be around more to drop off and pick up the children from school, meaning they spend less time in wraparound care. The other is from a work perspective; I’ve discovered that I really value the separation and distinction of my work and home environments – and the framework helps me achieve that. Whilst it's great to be able to work more at home, I get equal benefit from coming into the office or a different environment and interacting with people face-to-face. In fact, I think I now value this time more than I did before the pandemic. When I visit the office, it’s for interactive work and face-to-face meetings, mostly with colleagues. I try to avoid having too many Teams meetings as these can be done from anywhere. When I work at home, I tend to prioritise assignments that require a high degree of concentration, and little-to-no direct input from other people. Where I do need to collaborate, I work with my team on live OneDrive documents and Teams calls. Flexible working means something different to everyone – that’s the nature of how we work. In my view, and in my team, I believe we’ve become more productive since we started working flexibly, as it empowers people to tackle the right job at the right time for them, and to adopt a more agile approach to client commitments.