The HR problems professional services firms actually deal with.
Generic HR advice falls down in sector-specific situations. We have written the contracts, policies and processes for businesses that look like yours.
Fee-earner contracts and notice periods
Different terms for billable fee-earners, support staff and partners. Restrictive covenants that actually hold up. Notice periods that protect the client book.
Performance management and utilisation
Fair, evidenced processes for managing fee-earner performance. Capability vs conduct routes. Documentation that survives a tribunal.
Hybrid and remote working
Most professional-services firms are hybrid by default. We will write the right-to-disconnect policy, the home-working risk assessment, and the equipment loan terms.
Bonus, commission and equity
Discretionary versus contractual bonus. Clawback. Equity vesting on leaver events. We will draft schemes that incentivise without locking you in.
Confidentiality and IP
Especially important if you have client data, work product or proprietary methodology. Tight, enforceable, and reviewed annually.
How we work with professional services firms.
Retained HR support
Day-to-day HR for your team, with sector-specific policies built in. From £249/month.
See retainer detailsHR compliance audit
Sector-aware audit of your contracts, handbook, policies and processes. From £495.
See audit detailsHR Foundation Programme
Six-month fixed-fee build for businesses starting from scratch. From £449/month.
See the programmeWhat our clients say.
Dan is approachable, straight-talking, and always on the end of a phone or email when we need him. For a small agency, having access to that level of HR thinking without the cost of a full-time HR department has been invaluable.
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