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Clayton Utz

3.8
  • 1,000 - 50,000 employees

Working Hours at Clayton Utz

6.5
6.5 rating for Working Hours, based on 22 reviews
How flexible is your company when it comes to hours?
Considering this is a top-tier law firm, I am very satisfied with the hours. They seem to be reasonable. There is an element of present ism which doesn't affect me as I like to come into the office everyday anyway. But for those who need to work from home, depending on the team, it can be challenging to maintain flexibility while ensuring you receive work/engagement from colleagues.
Graduate, Sydney
Each team varies. I enjoy having flexibility to work from home and I wish there was more opportunity to work 2 days from home, however my current team only allows one day from home.
Graduate, Melbourne
I can generally leave work between 5.30-6pm. If I need to work late, I often go home first and continue working from home, and I enjoy this flexibility. As in most law firms, this is team dependent, but I like not needing to put on appearances and being able to leave on time once I've finished my work for the day as my team is mostly pretty chill about that.
Graduate, Sydney
This depends on teams. Depending on how much work is billable, some times have to work longer hours to reach billable targets.
Graduate, Brisbane
As long as the work is done, the company is comfortable accommodating the things that happen in my life.
Graduate, Melbourne
My hours have been fine. There have certainly been busy weeks where I have had to stay back late, but it was always for a short period of time and never sustained. Most people are encouraging of leaving on time and not staying back late for work unless it is absolutely necessary.
Graduate, Brisbane
I personally have had pretty normal working hours (generally around 8:30-5:30, or more recently 8:30-6:00) and that has been fine, company has a pretty good attitude towards working from home and flexibility in that, but I think once you settle as a lawyer the expectation of hours greatly rises due to billable targets, being seen to be working hard etc.
Graduate, Melbourne
Recently, I have been working 10-12 hours (which I am fine with).
Graduate, Melbourne
It heavily depends on the team. Some teams are happy for you to work after hours from home if need be, others require or expect you to stay - this feels quite inflexible and makes it difficult to manage other aspects of life and meet other commitments.
Graduate, Perth
Some teams better than others. Culture of presenteeism.
Graduate, Canberra
My team is very flexible allowing me to WFH when needed.
Graduate, Brisbane
Hours are unpredictable and always subject to change. The expectation as to hours is too much. As a grad you're expected to be doing around 6 billable hrs a day, despite the 'soft' language around how you shouldn't worry about billable. When you add onto that 6 hours of billable work - time conversing with colleagues, non-billable work, attending emails, having a break - your day at minimum is getting up to 9 / 10 hours of/at work. Then once you leave being a graduate the expectation only continues to increase and the hours become beyond unsustainable. If you're spending 10 hours working in a day on average, and you want to maintain a healthy lifestyle with exercise, cooking good foods, seeing friends and family and most importantly getting sufficient sleep, it is physically impossible to achieve it all. Those are the most basic things which support wellbeing which every person should have the time and capacity to do each day, yet with such unsustainable hours, wellbeing is what gets scarified first. Over time, the continual sacrifice or attempt to fit it all in just leads to burnout, stress, chronic fatigue and ill mental health. And that seems inevitable in this job.
Graduate, Sydney