The Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner recently surveyed Victorian lawyers to understand the impact of workplace culture on the wellbeing of lawyers. Notably, half of respondents reported that their workplace culture had a more positive than negative impact on their wellbeing and cited their workplace’s response to COVID-19 as one of the reasons for that response. The survey found that the factors that had the most positive impact on wellbeing were supportive colleagues, flexible work arrangements, reasonable work-life balance, supportive management and a culture that does not tolerate bullying or discrimination.

Conversely, the top factors negatively impacting wellbeing were unreasonable workloads, poor work-life balance, long work hours, hypercritical culture and lack of collegiality. READ MORE