About Carey Olsen

Carey Olsen has a multi stranded approach to underpinning the well being of its employees. This includes the security of a comprehensive employee benefits package with gold standard private medical cover, permanent health insurance, on site gym/gym membership subsidy, free eye tests, annual flu jabs, free fruit, the most modern IT and workstation equipment to name a few. There is a collective strength in all these elements which gives employees a security that the firm cares about their well being both inside and out of work. These tangible aspects are enhanced by a management focus on flexibility and understanding particularly when employees may be experiencing difficulties in their lives. The firm offers an employee assistance programme through UNUM and internal counselling and support where this is needed.

Along with regular team meetings, the firm holds an annual employee communications event, which features presentations from the partners and senior managers. Amongst the topics covered are the performance of the various fee earning departments, information on future plans for the business and strategic projects. There is a question and answer session with employees being able to put forward questions and suggestions to the partners leading the discussions.

The firm has a bonus scheme focused primarily on those in fee earning roles, however, there is also an exceptional bonus scheme that can be paid to permanent support staff as well. This bonus is aimed at rewarding performance that the partners consider to be exceptional and beyond that which should be reasonably expected of a person in the position of the recipient.