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soo my sleep schedule is effed up, i keep trying to wake up early-ish (7am) but i’m lacking motivation and i wake up tired 😴
i stumbled upon this article that talked about this book. we always hear about the “secret” of strong leaders is that they wake up early. has anyone read this/tried it out?
5 AM Club, The: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1443460710/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_n2GdFbJJEFKSN
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Thanks for sharing - praying for you all. Whether we want to admit it or not, the demand for consulting services has dropped pretty substantially for many industries. At the end of the day, we are all in the same boat regardless of the firm. People don’t believe me but EY is going to silently do this after our July 4th vacation and call it a “performance separation”
This post is worth checking out. It has lot of the color.
https://joinfishbowl.com/post_12r44k
I personally know of 5 high performers who were let go although they did have some issues with charge ability.
Yea sorry to hear this.
This is what Deloitte originally tried to pull. Our Consulting CEO finally admitted what they were tho. Sorry you guys are also being affected.
Yeah it’s time to GTFOH
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Looks like this is gonna be the realty for most firms unfortunately
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Lol you have not heard about how Deloitte has been handling layoffs then?
You mean leadership openly telling us that layoffs were starting, then giving cash severance, a couple weeks of pay, and cashing out leave is worse than doing it, according to OP, secretly and forcing employees to burn PTO to adjust the books?
They just addressed this on our call (just got off 3 min ago) - leadership continues to stress these are not Covid layoffs but I think given the attention to shareholders and internal folks, they'll continue to say its strictly performance until they call a spade a spade 🤷🏻♂️
Any data to support that we’ve been laying off high performers?
It's a business, not a charity. You have no right to a job. They are running a business and will do what's best for the business. What don't you understand about that?
Acoustic 1 - You’ve a valid point to a large extent. As soon as you put profits before people, your reputation and brand goes down the drain. Consulting is the business of Human Capital. It goes both ways.
This time is going to say a lot about the companies people are working for and the commitment they have to their employees be shareholders. If your in corporate it’s tough to find a transparent, honest company that actually practices their values to their own people.
A better firm would have targeted the obvious poor performers and people riding along and then asked for voluntary furlough, commentary pay cuts, C suite would have taken a public pay cut and PTO sharing would be encouraged to help those really in need of it.
Problem is, you need loyal employees who would sacrifice blood (different than drinking koolaid) for the company. Not sure I have really seen much actual loyalty here.
From what I have seen most are here only because they get something out of it. Find something better and they would be gone.
That’s the power of cohesive culture.
How about the incoming class of new hires OP? Are they impacted in any way?
Paused at least till Fall unless the work is sold for which talent is not available in-house.
Not true, our new hires are not affected (in Strategy, at least)
@A2 October is a normal start date option for us so not surprised
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Accenture has only laid off low performers from prior cycle review. Not high performers.
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A2, Are you certain they were high performers one year ago. That was the clincher.
Yes definitely, one of them was promoted last year and the others are industry experts, all senior managers or above.
Sounds like Capgemini and Accenture have been chatting with one another. Only, some of our BUs, like Invent, started back in April with the “PTO-followed-by layoff” move. Haven’t heard of any furloughs, just straight to laying off. Crazy times.
It happens every year learned it the hard way not only in Accenture but big4 as well COVID or no COVID
They don't pronounce it "ass enter" for nothing.
Deloitte is doing something similar. Not performance based, highly recommended to take Friday before Memorial Day off (on your own PTO) only to start mass layoffs the week after. But they say they care about people.