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Mauritius was fun with unlimited alcohol. Estonia was more 'restrained' with the level of booze more limited, but more freedom to explore Talinn.
What is intended here is for people to understand that JSA retreats are not paid 'holidays' for lawyers (as against the generally accepted notion that retreats are all about partying and chilling, which may be true in case of some firms!), but they are rather an agenda and purpose driven work retreat/offsite (which may not be a bad thing provided the intensity is curtailed!). The rant here is that while the intention of organising an offsite may be all noble and good, the effect of it is definitely not!
The firm bears the full cost of the trip, end to end. Shopping et al. is on you.
Both firms had incidents of sexual harassment.
Both times the alleged perpetrator was an M&A partner. One of whom is a cohead and gave a written apology to management not to repeat the behaviour. The other got the alleged victim to resign.
Moral of the story the big bucks excuses being an ass%#.
Law firm life.
Also what’s the approx cost per person to these exotic location considering the firm doesn’t bear the cost?
Taking indirect flights (with long layovers) only to participate in stupid team building and firm building exercises and attend sessions after sessions all day long is counterproductive and an utter waste of resources, energy and money. You may be a few minutes away from some of the most exotic and beautiful sceneries, pubs, restaurants, etc., but instead of experiencing all that - you will be forced to sit in the ball room of some five star hotel (sometimes not even that!) and listen to partners speak the same rhetoric year after year. Oh yes and don't forget that you have to wear 'smart casuals' - no shorts, t's etc. etc.
Retreats eventually leave people more exhausted. Would prefer not have these sham foreign retreats but local ones and be paid extra bonus instead so that we can go to a place of our liking and try and escape from work temporarily!
Just, in case some of you may be thinking, JSA retreats are not paid holidays!
Thanks to Sharma ji.