“I’m a two-year qualified associate at a City firm, and the amount of hours I’m expected to put in is beginning to grind me down. When I got into law I knew it’d be a hard slog, and I was prepared to put in the effort to make a good impression at the start of my career, but I now see that I underestimated just how much it would take over my life.
“I recently asked my line manager about the possibility of flexible working, primarily with regard to working from home rather than changing or reducing my hours. However, the response I got was pretty lukewarm. My firm says that it is committed to flexible working but from what I can see there isn’t much to back that claim up.
