​What to give your work spouse for Xmas?I am forever perplexed at the merging of our work and home life.As the workplace becomes a community for many individuals, is it appropriate to have a work spouse and should you strive to have the special connection in the workplace?Wikipedia states a work spouse as “a special,…

​What does technology recruitment have to do with the legal industry? As a former practicing lawyer and a current IT recruiter, I have witnessed the continued intersection of these two industries. Although not initially obvious, my current role has made it clear that law firms and the legal profession more broadly, continue adopting new and…

​The job seeking market is ever changing and ever evolving. The pandemic has demonstrated more clearly than ever that our situations are always flexible to change, and that the power doesn’t always lie in the hands of the employer. The current market is favoring the choices of employees, and employers are compromising more and more…

​I recently heard a psychologist say how offensive it was for a workplace to compare themselves to a family. Families are close knit, collaborative and constantly evolving, words seen regularly on recruitment ads. Families can also be dysfunctional, stressful and full of relationship challenges. In absence of a solid family unit can you replace this…

​Yesterday, empire group hosted their first in house legal luncheon in two years. We were lucky enough to have Fiona Spence, ‘The Excuse Eliminator’, come in and talk to us, and some of our clients about how to manage drama in the workplace. Fiona is a mindset coach who specialises in destroying ‘the beliefs that…