Supporting our people

Sustainable high performance depends on people having the flexibility and support to manage work alongside the other priorities in their lives.  

Our suite of compassionate, family-friendly policies provides further support at different life stages and in a range of personal circumstances. 

Many of our senior leaders work flexibly, and we welcome conversations about flexible working for any of our vacancies, seeking arrangements that work for both the individual and the business.  

Our wellbeing strategy focuses on three connected areas: mind, body and connection. That means strengthening mental health support and resilience, helping people look after their physical wellbeing, and creating a culture where people feel they belong and can talk openly about wellbeing. 

Employee wellbeing is one of the issues identified as most important to our people, our business and our wider stakeholders through our 2026 materiality assessment.

Health, wellbeing and performance go hand in hand. 

Law can be a stressful sector to work in, and we go out of our way to create a supportive and caring environment at Freeths. Our line managers play a central role in creating this environment.  

Our Wellbeing and Sustainable Performance Survey shows that most discuss wellbeing as part of regular check-in conversations, while more than three quarters of our people feel comfortable asking their manager for additional support when they need it.  

Through the Mindful Business Charter, we look for unnecessary pressure in the way we work and help our leaders create the conditions for people to perform at their best, sustainably. 

We use colleague feedback, sickness data, health assessments, counselling usage and external benchmarks to understand where people need more support and to measure where we're making progress.

• Unlimited confidential counselling  

• Wellbeing coaching 

• Over 100 Mental Health First Aiders provide support across all regions, diversities and levels in the firm 

• Mental Health First Aider network activities throughout the year 

• Mental Health First Aider Network trained in neurodiversity awareness 

• Mindapples bite-sized learning, helping colleagues understand and improve their mental health 

• Through initiatives such as Part-Time, Full Power, we support colleagues and managers to make flexible working work in practice 

• Mindfulness and meditation apps, including a wide range of self-guided content to support different aspects of wellbeing

Disability support at a glance 

• Dedicated Disability Officer 

• Workplace adjustments policy and provisions 

• Tailored Adjustment Plans for individuals  

• Disability-related absence policy (Disability Leave and Disability-related sickness absence) 

• Neurodiversity Workplace Needs Assessments 

• Wherever possible, we offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria 

• Staff Disability Network and Neurodiversity Group 

• Parents & Carers network sub-group for parents of disabled or SEN children 

• Intersectional inclusion working group – ensuring disability inclusion reflects various protected characteristics