“This firm’s most valuable resource is its people, which makes their health and well-being critical to our firm, our clients and our success,” said Sandy Thomas, Reed Smith’s Global Managing Partner and Executive Committee Chair. “The legal profession is inherently high pressure, and there can be a tendency for personnel in all roles to minimize or ignore their own well-being to focus on the demands of work. I have high hopes that Wellness Works will help all of us achieve the level of work-life balance we each desire and so richly deserve.”
Wellness Works comprises stress management, work-life balance, healthy habits, and health mindfulness, and encompasses more than physical fitness. In addition to promoting wellness, the program also will address mental health and substance abuse issues by providing training and information on these topics and helping the firm develop and maintain a supportive culture focused on these and other challenges its global employees encounter.
“Wellness Works builds upon Reed Smith’s successful, already well-established wellness initiatives,” said Casey Ryan, the firm’s Global Head of Legal Personnel and a member of its Senior Management Team. “We anticipate the program will continue to evolve by offering additional resources that address the health and wellness needs of our entire workforce.”
The program’s initial training, entitled “A Stress Resilience Toolkit: Moving from Surviving to Thriving,” is scheduled for February 13 and 14 as a videoconference in Reed Smith’s offices around the globe.
“Information about all aspects of Wellness Works is now available to all staff members online, as a link from the firm’s Intranet,” said Nita M. Gordon, Reed Smith’s U.S. Director of Human Resources. “Already under development are individual pages for each office that will provide information about both firmwide and local wellness programming options. We know many individuals aspire to become healthier and improve their work-life balance at the beginning of a new year. Wellness Works will give them new tools to actually jump-start that process in 2018.”
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