FRACTIONAL PEOPLE & CULTURE
Not every law firm needs a full-time Head of People. But every growing firm needs someone thinking seriously about its people. hrmattr provides law firms with experienced People & Culture capability on a fractional basis, giving your Partners and leadership team the support they need, when they need it. From everyday people matters to remuneration, performance, retention, culture and workforce strategy, we become an extension of your firm.
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Proactive, not just reactive.
Traditional outsourced HR is often reactive. A problem happens. Someone calls. The problem gets dealt with. We think differently. hrmattr works proactively with your leadership team to build a stronger firm, identifying people issues before they become problems and creating the structures that help your people perform, develop and stay.
You get both strategic People & Culture advice and practical day-to-day HR support.
Senior capability, tailored to your firm.
Your Fractional People & Culture service can be tailored to your firm’s size, structure and priorities.
People Strategy
Workforce planning · Organisational structure · People budgets · Headcount planning · Succession planning · Partner and leadership discussions · Annual People & Culture planning · Growth and restructuring initiatives
Performance & Progression
Performance review frameworks · Career pathways · Promotion criteria · Associate and Senior Associate progression · Partner pathways · Goal setting · Performance improvement · Regular feedback · Recognition
Remuneration & Benefits
Salary reviews · Market benchmarking · Remuneration structures · Bonuses and incentives · Benefits · Flexible working · Promotion increases · Remuneration communication
Retention & Engagement
Employee engagement · Stay interviews · Retention reviews · Employee feedback · Culture initiatives · Recognition · Career conversations · Exit interviews · Attrition analysis · Retention planning
Support for the work that happens every day.
Sometimes Partners simply need someone they can call. hrmattr can support your firm with probation reviews, performance conversations, employee concerns, leave and flexibility matters, workplace issues, difficult conversations, policy questions, onboarding and offboarding, managing employee departures and general HR guidance. Where a matter requires specialist employment-law advice, we can work alongside the firm’s legal advisers.
We also strengthen employer brand, employee value proposition, careers messaging, recruitment strategy, candidate experience, graduate attraction, talent pipelines, LinkedIn presence and your reputation as an employer. Because attracting better people starts long before someone applies for a job.
04. FOUNDATIONS
As firms grow, informal ways of managing people stop working. We help put the right foundations in place: HR policies, employee handbooks, onboarding frameworks, probation processes, performance-review cycles, promotion processes, leave procedures, flexible-working frameworks, offboarding processes, HR documentation and templates. Simple, practical and designed around how your firm actually operates.
A model that changes as your firm does.
We start by understanding your firm, its people, structure, growth plans and current challenges. From there, we agree the level of support you need. That could mean a few hours of senior People & Culture support each month, regular leadership meetings and ongoing strategic advice, or operating as your firm’s external People & Culture function. As your firm changes, the level of support can change with it.
Fractional P&C is particularly suited to firms that have grown beyond managing HR informally, need more strategic capability, are growing rapidly, want to improve retention, need stronger performance and progression frameworks, or want senior capability without another permanent salary.
SENIOR CAPABILITY. FLEXIBLE MODEL.
Your people strategy shouldn’t begin when someone resigns. hrmattr helps law firms take a more deliberate approach to their people, from attraction and performance through to progression, culture and retention. Your people are your firm. Let’s build around them.
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