QUESTION
Has the hybrid working model made a significant difference in hiring processes across New York City agencies?
2:08:54
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3 min
Council Member Gale A. Brewer inquires about the impact of implementing a hybrid working model on hiring abilities across all New York City agencies, with a focus on legal departments.
- Brewer shows interest in the efficacy of the hybrid model for hiring personnel.
- She indicates having advocated for the hybrid model well before the mayor’s endorsement.
- Brewer seeks to understand the overall benefit of the hybrid model on the hiring processes of city agencies, especially in legal departments.
Gale A. Brewer
2:08:54
Thank you very much.
2:08:57
I was just appreciative of the fact that you're talking about hybrid.
2:09:00
I must admit I talked about it in hearings for, like, a year before the mayor talked and did it.
2:09:06
So how much difference has it made in terms of not just you, but every legal aspect of every single agency wasn't able to hire until hybrid was announced as something the city can do.
2:09:19
So is it helpful?
2:09:20
That's my question.
Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix
2:09:22
Well, I I I don't I don't think that we have had enough time to be able to give you a definitive answer on this because this is something that we we just implemented.
2:09:41
But I I think it is helpful in that our our attorneys were pretty excited.
2:09:49
With the ability to do this.
2:09:52
And our labor and employment folks work with it in tragic get it together.
2:09:57
I mean, look, we are we are very conscious of the fact that this is the way
Gale A. Brewer
2:10:02
And every other firm does it in the private sector.
Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix
2:10:04
Right.
2:10:05
And with me, you know, of course, they they had to be pretty much under evaluations made before we were able to get the pieces of the unions got it, then we we we got it.
2:10:17
I think what we have been seeing now in recruiting and people that are expressing interest in the law department is that people are expressing that interest because of I think like, I believe those two pieces, the fact that we've we've done something without adjustment in salaries, and that that is also an option.
2:10:35
Mhmm.
2:10:35
And, you know, I think it's beneficial.
2:10:39
I think we need some we need to have some more time to kind of look at it, but I I I think that it is something that is that that's gonna be very beneficial.
Gale A. Brewer
2:10:49
Okay.
2:10:50
And in agencies, obviously, there's general councils and different agencies.
2:10:54
Do they also use hybrid?
2:10:55
Do you coordinate with them on some of the hiring issues.
2:10:58
I mean, obviously, probably on substance.
2:11:00
But from my perspective, it's just hard to hire, period, attorneys.
2:11:06
In New York City.
2:11:07
So I'm just wondering if they're being as intelligent as you are about trying to use be creative.
Eric Eichenholtz
2:11:14
So I can go ahead with that.
2:11:16
Yeah.
2:11:16
So I think most of the agencies we're at least the ones that I've worked with very much.
2:11:26
We're we're welcoming of the idea of hybrid work.
2:11:29
They were attorneys.
Gale A. Brewer
2:11:30
The mayor was just a year too late, but that's my opinion and not yours.
Eric Eichenholtz
2:11:34
So so the I do think that they like like the law department are looking at it as a potential recruitment tool.
2:11:41
I think they like the law department.
2:11:43
Most of the agencies had saw it as a way sort of from our albooster as their attention
Ken Cobb
2:11:48
tool.
2:11:49
Exactly.
Eric Eichenholtz
2:11:50
And so I do think to you know, the and and we obviously, we we do discuss hiring practices with some agencies to the extent we have.
2:11:58
I know that agencies I can't say universally of every agency, obviously, but there are agencies that intend to take advantage of the new flexibility.
2:12:09
In as part of their recruitment and retention program.