An employer is offering its staff the option to work from home permanently, but the deal comes with a 20% pay cut for the convenience.
Bosses at law firm Stephenson Harwood said staff will be able to opt in for full time remote working, however those that choose to do so will have a fifth knocked off their salaries.
Stephenson Harwood, which is renowned as a maritime law practice, is ranked in the 50 highest-earning legal firms in the UK. It employs more than 1,100 people and has offices in Paris, Greece, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea.
Junior lawyers at Stephenson Harwood have starting salaries of £90,000 which means that any who avail themselves of the offer would lose about £18,000.
The firm told The Times newspaper that its new working policy would apply to its London headquarters and most of its international offices.
But a spokesman for the firm said it is likely that any associate who adopted a fully remote working routine would be ruled out of promotion to ‘partner’ level.
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"For the vast majority of our people, our hybrid working policy works well," the spokesman said, adding that staff already have the option to work from home twice a week.
"Like so many firms we see value in being in the office together regularly, while also being able to offer our people flexibility."
Elsewhere, some employers in the UK will begin a new four-day trial in the UK from June 1, with the option for a shorter week with no loss of pay.
Sixty firms with 3,000 staff have signed up to take part in the pilot project run by campaign group 4 Day Week Global for six months.
The scheme is based on the idea that staff will get 100% of their salary for 80% of the time, and hopefully maintain 100% productivity.
It comes amid growing interest in the potential benefits of giving workers an extra day off.
Companies that have signed up to the trial range from large marketing firms to charities and breweries.
During the pilot, the businesses will work with researchers to record the impact on productivity.
They will also track worker wellbeing and the impact on the environment and gender equality.
Atom Bank become one of the most recent adaptors of the four-day week last year when it moved to a permanent long-weekend without deducting pay.
Instead of reducing employees' hours, it made the four working days longer.
