So here we are, one year on, peering through the looking-glass from the other end. The position as we approach the looming non-event of this year’s pay round has totally reversed, but we are still looking at the same thing: the contradictory, sometimes resentful relationship between partners and assistants.
So while last year hard-worked assistants vocally asserted demands for higher pay and work-life balance, this year partners are sizing up a far more challenging environment. And, in many cases, as can be seen from comments in this week’s Big Question, partners feel it is high time to deliver a reality check to what they view as pampered Generation Y assistants.
