Make no mistake - consulting is sometimes a hard life. In our firm, we strive to give a unique quality of service to our clients. We recruit people who like to be given responsibility, scope to try new ideas and are able to cope with being thrown in at the deep end to solve challenging problems. We know that employing and managing diverse people gives us a more balanced organisation. It makes us more adaptable to new situations and better able to deliver value to our clients.
If you join us, you may sometimes find that the needs of the client may impinge on your personal time but we will do our best to help you to manage your work/life balance effectively.
PA goes beyond its statutory requirements by ensuring that all employees, not just parents of children of a certain age, can request a flexible working arrangement. This right applies to all employees regardless of their length of service or gender. While many arrangements are permanent, some employees wish to introduce increased flexibility for a limited period.
For example, a number of our staff (male and female) have found it helpful to work part-time for periods of their career.
Recognising personal need for time off and leisure
PA recognises that you may need time off from work for a variety of reasons, some planned and others perhaps unforeseen. In addition to annual holiday entitlements and compassionate leave there is the option to buy up to seven additional days' annual leave each year.
Supporting career breaks
At PA, we recognise that longer breaks are sometimes required to fulfil your dreams, providing the opportunity for either additional study or travel. We support this through the option to request a sabbatical for up to six months once you have completed three years with PA, or a one year study break available after two years with PA.
This is what some of our people who have taken advantage of the sabbatical policy have to say:
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"One of the benefits that PA offers its staff is scope for taking a sabbatical. Some people use this to take an extended holiday – trips round the world are popular. Other people use it to work for charities. I used the time to go to India, where I combined doing a little work for PA with working at a Delhi-based human rights NGO. Amongst other things, the NGO focuses on advocating justice sector reforms across the wider Commonwealth, and I have helped them develop their work on policing, including in India itself." |
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"PA's sabbatical policy gave me the possibility of a six-month leave of absence. My PA work had been fairly packed with challenges working for big name clients in the telecoms sector and investment community, and in some ways the challenges of my six months hiking in Tibet, cycling through China and across the UK were a continuation of that. In many ways, of course, it was a complete break." |
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Part-time working
Regardless of your gender or rank, we actively support part-time working. Whatever your reasons for wishing to work part-time, PA is committed to considering your request seriously and supporting you wherever practicable.
