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Supporting working families and their well-being is not only the right thing to do. It’s also a pipeline for the future.
Our initiatives are designed to support the unique needs of working carers, foster a culture of care and understanding. Together, we retain top talent, improve productivity and build a strong, motivated workforce.
Catherine Zheng
Management Committee
Business Development Committee
Partner, Co-Head of Intellectual Property
As a caring employer, it is our responsibility to put measures in place to support our working carers, balancing their commitments to work and family and promoting their selfcare. We provide resources to our working carers who often face the unique challenges and responsibilities in their roles while working in a demanding industry.
Throughout the years, our working families are provided with series of parenting talks which equip them with knowledge and skills in child development, effective communication with children, discipline strategies and fostering a supportive home environment. It helps to reduce the stress associated with family responsibilities and create a culture that encourages work-family balance within the workplace.
We also take good care of the wellness of our working carers through mindfulness trainings – to provide them the tools to manage stress, improve focus and promote selfcare.
“I found the talk very insightful with practical skills and tips for parents to strengthen their relationship with their kids. I shared the ideas with my wife afterwards.”
Chris Wong
Senior Associate, Corporate Finance
“I found the session incredibly useful in learning how to maintain a healthy parent-child relationship with my children. The speaker adeptly utilised real-life scenarios as examples, providing insightful explanations demonstrating the practical application of relevant parenting techniques.”
April Cheng
Senior Associate, Litigation and Dispute Resolution
The purpose of our Working Families Network is to facilitate networking opportunities among working families within the firm, allowing them to build relationships, exchange ideas and form connections.
They collaborate across networks and to navigate the challenges of balancing work and family responsibilities. It creates an environment where employees feel comfortable on sharing their concerns and seeking support.
Bringing your child to work is a wonderful opportunity of shared experience and strengthening of parent-child bonding. It is also a remarkable opportunity for the children to gain insights into their parents’ working environment and connect with our colleagues.
Helping our people balance work and family commitments is a top priority for our firm. We offer family-friendly work policies like flexible leave and hybrid working arrangements. We recognise employees have different caring responsibilities and personal circumstances at different time in life, and hence varied levels of flexibility is needed to integrate their work with their life.
We understand that our people may require extended time off for personal or family reasons. In such cases, we provide support by enabling them to take the time they need while maintaining a connection to the firm. This gives them the flexibility necessary to achieve a better work-family balance.
At Deacons, We focused on the wellbeing of our people. We believe physical and mental health are crucial to helping our people reach their full potential. We encourage open and mindful conversations around the importance of both physical and mental wellness. By providing accessible wellness resources, we aim to empower our people to endeavor, both at work and in their personal lives. Our approach to wellbeing is holistic – that means we look at all aspects of life. Our wellbeing programs are designed based on the factors of physical, mental and life balance. These factors are intrinsically linked.
Another vision of the firm is to foster a supportive and collaborative workplace culture where mental health is openly understood and accepted. Our management promotes and drives non-judgemental discussion around mental health issues within the firm openly and consistently. By facilitating these open conversations, we break down barriers and respond effectively to mental health challenges in order to address stigma and raise the overall mental wellbeing of our people.
We celebrate a number of key awareness days including World Health Day, Mental Health Action Day, Breast Cancer Awareness Month and others.
Deacons signed the Mental Health Workplace Charter
Being one of the signatories of the Charter underpins our collective commitment to cultivating a stigma-free, supportive workplace culture and stimulating open dialogues on mental health. We believe a shared agenda is crucial to align the entire workforce towards the common goal of building mental health-friendly communities in the long run.
Wellness
To resonate with the World Health Day, we organized Deacons Wellness Day which featured health assessments with personalized health advice, educational workshops that provided stress management techniques and nutrition tips. At Deacons, the well-being of our people is our utmost priority. Together, we foster a healthy and vibrant workplace.
Our Approach to Mental Health
One of our approaches to mental health is education and prevention. Mental Health First Aider training transformed our workplace and practices in ways that preventing or mitigating mental health problems at its early stage, rather than just reacting to them. We also let our people know what resources are available to them when they encounter mental health issues.
Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental health, just like physical heath, we take actions to improve it. We believe improving our mental health wellbeing is a never-ending journey. At Deacons, we set May as Mental Health Awareness Month, and during the month a program was launched to raise awareness on mental health care and provide practical tools for our people to reduce stress and improve their mental health wellbeing.